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KENTUCKY RAILROAD TAX CASES.

115 U.S. 321 (1885)

KENTUCKY RAILROAD TAX CASES. CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS & TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME. CHESAPEAKE, OHIO & SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 16, 1885.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.B. Simrall, Mr. William Lindsay, and Mr. Holmes Cummins, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. P.W. Hardin, Attorney-General of Kentucky, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

After stating the facts in the language above reported, he continued:

Two Federal questions arise on the record, in these cases, contained in the following propositions affirmed by the plaintiffs in error:

First. That the act of April 3, 1878, and the taxes levied in pursuance of it, if enforced, as it is sought...

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