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SOUTH-WESTERN R. CO. v. GEORGIA

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92 U.S. 676 (1876)

23 L.Ed. 762

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 8, 1876.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Jeremiah S. Black, Mr. David Dudley Field, and Mr. A.R. Lawton, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. N.J. Hammond, Attorney-General of the State of Georgia, and Mr. Robert Toombs, for the defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

What we have said in Central Railroad & Banking Company v. Georgia, is applicable, in its largest extent, to the present case. It appears from the record that the South-western Railroad Company, chartered in 1845, with an exemption from taxation beyond one-half of one per cent of its annual net income, was united with the Muscogee Railroad Company, a...

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