Tennessee v. Pullman Southern Car Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This case was argued with Picket'd v. Pullman Southern Co.r Co., ante, 34, by the same counsel.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This is a suit in equity, brought in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Tennessee, on December 15, 1883, by tbe State of Tennessee, against the Pullman Southern Car Company, a Kentucky corporation. The questions involved are the. same as those disposed of in Pickard v. The Pullman Southern Car Co., ante, 34. The bill sets forth the act of Tennessee of March 16,1877, and alleges that from 1877 the company had run sixty- sleeping cars instead of thirty-eight each year, and ought to’have paid as a privilege tax .for each car for, each of the years 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, $50, making…
2Cited by1 opinion
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