RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAINE


96 U.S. 499 (1877)

RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAINE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Josiah H. Drummond for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Lucius A. Emery, Attorney-General of Maine, contra.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal question for our determination is whether the conditional and limited taxation, to which the two original companies first consolidated were subjected, is extended to the present corporation defendant after its second consolidation. As the act of 1856, authorizing the first consolidation, conferred upon the new corporation "all the...

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