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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. CO. v. WRIGHT

No. 163.

248 U.S. 525 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 181

63 L.Ed. 401

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. WRIGHT, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 3, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.M. Cunningham, Jr., and Mr. A.R. Lawton for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Samuel H. Sibley, with whom Mr. John C. Hart was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity brought by the Railway Company to prevent the collection of certain taxes, which, it is alleged, would be contrary to Article I, § 10, and to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The case was heard on bill, demurrer and answer and certain agreed facts, and the Court of first instance issued an injunction as prayed. The decree was reversed however by the...

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