Union Passenger Railway Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore

The appellant is an incorporated company operating-three lines of street passenger railways in the City of Baltimore-. One of its lines extends for about a half mile into Baltimore County. By the Act of Assembly of 1882, ch. 229, the twelve per cent, tax imposed by *240ordinance No. 150 of 1880, on the gross receipts of all such railways in the City of Baltimore was reduced to nine per cent, and was directed to he paid quarterly to the City Register. The appellant paid into the City Treasury quarterly certain amounts represented hy it to he nine per cent, of the gross earnings realized on all its…