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MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON RY. v. PACE

No. 8.

282 U.S. 241 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 108

75 L.Ed. 315

MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON RAILWAY COMPANY v. PACE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued October 29, 1930.

Decided January 5, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John B. Hyde, with whom Messrs. S.R. Prince, L.E. Jeffries, and Ely B. Mitchell were on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. W.W. Magruder and Benjamin H. Charles, with whom Mr. James A. Cunningham was on the brief, for appellees.

Messrs. George T. Mitchell, Attorney General of Mississippi, and J.A. Lauderdale, Assistant Attorney General, by special leave of Court, filed a brief on behalf of the State of Mississippi, as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

By a suit in equity brought in the chancery court of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, the appellant sought an injunction forbidding the collection of a tax levied to make a partial payment upon bonds of the Oldham road district in that county. Among other grounds for such relief the bill assailed the state statutes underlying the existence of the district and the...

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