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COLUMBUS & GREENV. RY. v. MILLER

No. 195.

283 U.S. 96 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 392

75 L.Ed. 861

COLUMBUS & GREENVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. MILLER, STATE TAX COLLECTOR, FOR THE USE OF THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wm. H. Watkins and R.C. Stovall, with whom Messrs. A.F. Gardner, Sr., A.F. Gardner, Jr., and H.T. Odom were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Simon Rosenthal, with whom Messrs. George Butler, J. Ed. Franklin, Lamar F. Easterling, and C.B. Snow were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

On behalf of the Mississippi Levee District, the State Tax Collector of Mississippi sued the Columbus & Greenville Railway Company to collect a tax for the years 1926 and 1927, under chapter 282 of the Laws of Mississippi of 1914, at the rate of $350 a mile on its main line within the District. The Railway Company had paid the tax at the rate of $50 a mile, pursuant to the provisions of an amending act...

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