Tamble v. Pullman Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee; Edward T. Sanford, Judge. Action at law by the Pullman Company against Peter M. Tamble, trustee of Davidson County, Tenn. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee; Edward T. Sanford, Judge. Action at law by the Pullman Company against Peter M. Tamble, trustee of Davidson County, Tenn. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Until the arising of the present controversy, the Pullman Company (hereafter called the “Company”) had not been taxed on its cars by the state of Tennessee, or by any municipality in the state, but there had been levied against it only an annual, general, specific tax, imposed by, and paid to, the state. Tennessee has a system by…
1Opinion of the CourtDenison, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). When the suit was commenced, the defendants were the collecting officer, Tamble, as trustee of Davidson county, and also Davidson county itself, and J. B. Jetton, one of the state “revenue agents.” The declaration alleged that the plaintiff, under duress and protest, had paid to the county trustee the full sum of all county and state taxes, interest, and penalties, for the five years in question. The right to recover was based upon the claims that neither the county trustee nor the state board had any jurisdiction to assess the property in question, that…
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