COMM'RS OF WICOMICO CO. v. BANCROFT

No. 129.

203 U.S. 112 (1906)

COMMISSIONERS OF WICOMICO COUNTY v. BANCROFT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 5, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James E. Ellegood, for petitioners.

Mr. Nicholas P. Bond, Mr. Ralph Robinson and Mr. Edward Duffy, for respondent, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

The respondent, Samuel Bancroft, Jr., began an action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland to enjoin the county commissioners of Wicomico County from levying taxes on the property of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company, alleging that he was the holder of twenty bonds secured by mortgage upon the company's property, which...

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