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FEDERAL LAND BANK v. CROSLAND

No. 428.

261 U.S. 374 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 385

67 L.Ed. 703

FEDERAL LAND BANK OF NEW ORLEANS v. CROSLAND, JUDGE OF PROBATE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William C. Dufour, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. John St. Paul, Jr., and Mr. W.A. Gunter were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James J. Mayfield, with whom Mr. Harwell G. Davis, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, was on the briefs, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the recording officer of Montgomery County, Alabama, to record a first mortgage deed on receiving the fee for recording the same, without payment of an additional sum of fifteen cents for each one hundred dollars of the principal sum secured. The General Revenue Act of the State, approved September 15, 1919, by §...

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