Legal Opinion

Railroad Tax Cases

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas

Decided April 1, 1905PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TRIEBER, District Judge.

In 1903, and again in 1904, a number of the railroad corporations of this state filed their bills in this court to restrain the Board of State Railroad Commissioners, which, under the laws of the state, is composed of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Auditor of State, from certifying the assessments made by them in those years against the property of the complainants. Separate bills were filed by each of the railroads in each year, but, as the allegations upon which the relief is sought in each case for each year are practically the same, the disposition of one of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Clark v. BarnardSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  2. Stanley v. SchwalbySupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. BackusIndiana Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Hubbard v. GarfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
  5. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. v. People ex rel. Att'y-generalSupreme Court of Colorado · 1879

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Haskell v. HustonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  2. Manchin v. BrowningWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
  3. Johnson v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. MeredithCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1942
  4. Shute v. FrohmillerArizona Supreme Court · 1939
  5. O'CONNOR v. SlakerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927

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