BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R. v. PARKERSBURG

No. 305.

268 U.S. 35 (1925)

THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD v. THE CITY OF PARKERSBURG.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank W. Nesbit, with whom Messrs. James W. Vandervort and Mason G. Ambler were on the briefs. for appellant.

Messrs. R.B. McDougle and F.P. Moats, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was commenced in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Virginia in 1894. The plaintiff is the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, alleged to be a Maryland corporation; the defendant is the City of Parkersburg, a West Virginia corporation. The relief sought was to enjoin the levying of taxes assessed upon certain railroad property. The federal jurisdiction was invoked solely on...

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