ST. LOUIS & c. RY. CO. v. HAGERMAN

No. 261.

256 U.S. 314 (1921)

ST. LOUIS & EAST ST. LOUIS ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MISSOURI AT THE RELATION AND TO THE USE OF HAGERMAN, COLLECTOR OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph S. Clark, with whom Mr. William E. Garvin was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Thomas G. Rutledge, with whom Mr. J.M. Lashly was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the Bridge Electric Company, a corporation organized under Missouri law, was the owner in 1906 of 865-1000ths of a mile of electric railway, constructed upon and extending from the easterly to the westerly end of the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis. In that year the State Board of Equalization of Missouri valued the portion of this railroad...

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