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HOME INSURANCE COMPANY v. TENNESSEE

No. 672.

161 U.S. 198 (1896)

16 S.Ct. 476

40 L.Ed. 669

HOME INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY, v. TENNESSEE FOR THE USE OF MEMPHIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank P. Poston, for plaintiffs in error, submitted on his brief.

Mr. S.P. Walker, (with whom was 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.

It is quite questionable whether section 30 of the act incorporating the Memphis Life and General Insurance Company grants to that company any immunity from taxation. Without discussing or deciding that question, however, we think that, assuming the exemption to exist in favor of that company, it did not pass to the Home Insurance Company by virtue of the fourteenth section of the act...

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