State v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

A tax suit was brought for the year 1904 in the district court for Cass county, in which the Missouri I’acific Railway Company was made defendant, and it ivas sought to enforce the collection of taxes upon certain lots upon which the railway company had acquired a right of way. The district court upon the trial held that all taxes levied *5after the railway company acquired its right of way were void, because the right of way should be assessed by the state board and was not subject to local taxation. The district court also held that the taxes assessed before the right of way was acquired by…