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CHARLOTTE &C. RAILROAD v. GIBBES

No. 41.

142 U.S. 386 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 255

35 L.Ed. 1051

CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD COMPANY, v. GIBBES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Linden Kent for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William E. Earle for defendant in error. Mr. Y.J. Pope, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, and Mr. N.L. Jeffries were with him on his brief.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Notwithstanding the several objections taken in the complaint to the assessment and tax upon the railroad companies to meet the expenses and salaries of the railroad commissioners, the argument of counsel on the hearing was confined to the supposed conflict of the laws authorizing the tax with the inhibition of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. All other...

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