Gillespie v. Gaston & Thomas

Station, Associate Justice.

The appellees were the owners of shares of stock in a bank incorporated under the law of this State, and these, not having been rendered by their owners, were assessed. The tax collector was proceeding to collect the taxes so claimed, and the owners of the shares, after tendering all other taxes assessed against them, brought this suit to restrain him from collecting the taxes assessed on the shares of stock. The injunction was perpetuated, and this appeal is prosecuted from the final judgment through which this was done.

The tax was claimed for the year 1883.…