MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the court.
The Federal question presented by the writ of error in this case is whether state statutes, subjecting the property of a railroad corporation to taxation, impair the obligation of the contract contained in an exemption clause of the company's charter?
It arises in this way: The State of Tennessee and certain counties therein in February, 1891, filed their bill against the
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