State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
ACTION by tbe state to recover an amount claimed to be due from the defendant railroad company as unpaid taxes; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and reserved, on facts found, for the advice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndeews, C. J.
This is an action brought by the state to recover certain arrears of taxes claimed to .be due from the defendant for the years 1880 to 1885, both inclusive. The questions are reserved for the advice of this court.
This state has for many years practiced a special method of imposing taxes on railroads, and on some other classes of corporations, differing widely from the general method of taxation on other kinds of property. The statutes that were in force during the years above named respecting the taxation of railroads were sections five, six and seven of title 12, chapter 5, of the revision…
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