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MERCHANTS' NATL. BANK v. RICHMOND

No. 240.

256 U.S. 635 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 619

65 L.Ed. 1135

MERCHANTS' NATIONAL BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, v. CITY OF RICHMOND.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 6, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Legh R. Page, with whom Mr. E. Warren Wall was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.R. Pollard and Mr. George Wayne Anderson, for defendant in error, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The court of last resort of Virginia sustained a tax assessed by the City of Richmond in the year 1915, in form against plaintiff in error, a national banking association, in substance and effect against its shareholders, overruling a contention based upon the Constitution and laws of the United States. To review its judgment a writ of error has been sued out and allowed, and application has been made also for...

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