State ex rel. Wine v. Keokuk & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Scotland Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. (1) The ninth section of the charter of the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company, exempting the property of that company from taxation for twenty years after completion, constituted a contract between that corporation and the state within the meaning of that clause of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state “shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”
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Appeal from, Scotland Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. (1) The ninth section of the charter of the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company, exempting the property of that company from taxation for twenty years after completion, constituted a contract between that corporation and the state within the meaning of that clause of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state “shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.” Trustees of Dartmouth College ®. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518; Sloan ». Railroad, 61 Mo. 30; Scotland, County v. Railroad, 65 Mo. 123;…
1Opinion of the CourtBrack, J.
This is a suit in the name of the state to the use of Wine, collector of Scotland county, to enforce the payment of state, county, school and municipal corporation taxes, levied on the property of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company for the tax year ending in August, 1886. The defendant corporation became the purchaser of the railroad property after the taxes were levied, and the defense is that the property was exempt from taxation whilst owned by the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company. The circuit court ruled against the' defendant, and hence this appeal.
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