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PLANTERS' INSURANCE CO. v. TENNESSEE

No. 678.

161 U.S. 193 (1896)

16 S.Ct. 466

40 L.Ed. 667

PLANTERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, v. TENNESSEE FOR THE USE OF MEMPHIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.B. Turley, (with whom was Mr. L.E. Wright on the brief,) for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. S.P. Walker, (with whom were Mr. C.W. Metcalf and Mr. F.T. Edmondson on the brief,) for defendants in error.

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

The claim set up by plaintiffs in error is that the insurance company was duly incorporated as the Energetic Insurance Company of Nashville, under the act passed March 24, 1860; that it is the same company as therein incorporated, and entitled to all the benefits and immunities, among them that of exemption from taxation granted by that charter.

The defendants in error deny that...

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