RAILWAY CO. v. PHILADELPHIA


101 U.S. 528 (____)

RAILWAY COMPANY v. PHILADELPHIA.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. David W. Sellers and Mr. F. Carroll Brewster for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles E. Morgan, Jr., and Mr. W. Nelson West, contra.


MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

Stipulations, in a statute of a State, exempting certain property, rights, or franchises from taxation, or engaging that the same shall be taxed only at a certain rate, if made for a valuable consideration received by the State whose legislature enacted the stipulation, is a contract, and as such comes within the rules of decision specifying the description of contracts...

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