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CHICAGO GREAT WEST. RY. v. MINNESOTA

No. 377.

216 U.S. 234 (1910)

CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MINNESOTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George W. Peterson, with whom Mr. George T. Simpson, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota was on the brief, for defendant in error.

Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, Mr. Cordenio A. Severance, Mr. Robert E. Olds and Mr. A.G. Briggs for plaintiff in error, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The rights of the plaintiff in error depend primarily upon the construction of the act incorporating the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company, Territorial Laws, 1854, c. 47, the amendatory act of 1855, c. 58, the amendatory act of 1856, c. 47, and the act of 1883, Special Laws, c. 83. That act of 1856 imposed a two per cent gross earnings tax in lieu of all other taxes...

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