Powers v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This case, which is a suit brought' by the appellee in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of' Michigan, while involving the validity of the railroad tax law of the State of Michigan, acts 19Ó1, p. 236, No. 173, recently considered by this court {ante, p. 245), involves the further question of the existence and scope of an alleged contract in respect to…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This case, which is a suit brought' by the appellee in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of' Michigan, while involving the validity of the railroad tax law of the State of Michigan, acts 19Ó1, p. 236, No. 173, recently considered by this court {ante, p. 245), involves the further question of the existence and scope of an alleged contract in respect to taxation. The Detroit and Pontiac Rail Road Company was chartered by the legislature of the Territory of Michigan, March 7,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
Many questions which might otherwise be perplexing are. settled by the' decision of the Supreme Court of Michigan in Attorney General v. Joy et al., 55 Michigan, 94. That was an information brought by the Attorney General in the Supreme Court of the State, charging the defendants with claiming and usurping the corporate rights and franchises of the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company. The act of 1855 was sustained, notwithstanding'some alleged defects in its passage, and it was decided that it did not create a new corporation but simply authorized the old territorial…
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