Des Moines Navigation & Railroad v. Iowa Homestead Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
In equity. Decree for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed. The cause wyas argued with Stryker v. Goodnow, ante, 527. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This suit was brought by the Iowa Homestead Company against the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company to recover the same taxes for the years 1864 to 1871, both inclusive, which formed part of the subject matter of the litigation between the same parties in Homestead Co. v. Valley Railroad, 17 Wall. 153, referred to in Stryker v. Crane, ante, 527. The Railroad Company set up the decree in its favor in that suit as a bar to the present action, and to this the Homestead Company replied "that the decree or judgment referred to is null and void, for the reason that the courts of the United…
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