LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R.R. CO. v. PALMES


109 U.S. 244 (1883)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. PALMES, Collector.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19th, 1883.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John L. Cadwalader for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. E.A. Perry for the defendant.


MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

After reciting the facts in the foregoing language, he said:

The exemption from taxation, created by the 18th section of the Internal Improvement Act of 1855, is, in every respect, similar to that which was declared in Morgan v. Louisiana, 93 U.S. 217, to be not assignable. No words of assignability are used by the...

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