FIRST NAT. BANK v. ANDERSON

No. 26.

269 U.S. 341 (1926)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GUTHRIE CENTER v. ANDERSON, COUNTY AUDITOR, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.G. Gamble, with whom Messrs. John P. Foster and Ralph L. Read were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Messrs. Ben J. Gibson, Attorney General of Iowa, and Earl W. Vincent, with whom Mr. Maxwell A. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General of Iowa, was on the briefs, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by a national bank on behalf of its shareholders to restrain the collection of a tax levied against the latter on their shares. The bank is located at Guthrie Center in Guthrie County, Iowa. The defendants, who are county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes, interposed a general demurrer to the petition. The demurrer was sustained,...

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