Linehan Railway Transfer Co. v. Pendergrass
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, the Linehan Railway Transfer Company, a corporation of the state of Iowa, was the owner of a steamboat which it used to transfer the trains and cars of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company back and forth across i he Mississippi river, from Trotters Point, Miss., to Helena, Ark. The proper taxing authorities of Phillips county, Ark., imposed a tax on this boat, amounting, with penalty and costs, to the sum of $93. The boat was valued a t f2,500. The appellee, as sheriff of Phillips county and ex officio collector of taxes, was about to collect…
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