FIDELITY & COLUMBIA TR. CO. v. LOUISVILLE

No. 424.

245 U.S. 54 (1917)

FIDELITY & COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY, EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE OF EWALD, v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 5, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William W. Crawford for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Pendleton Beckley and Mr. George Cary Tabb, with whom Mr. Stuart Chevalier was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit brought by the City of Louisville, Kentucky, to recover annual taxes for the years 1907 and 1908 in respect of personal property omitted from the original assessments to the owner L.P. Ewald in his lifetime. The facts as simplified for the purposes of argument here are that Ewald was domiciled in Louisville but continued to carry on a business in St. Louis...

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