Hoge Comptroller-General v. Richmond and Danville Railroad Company

APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina.

The Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, a stockholder in the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railroad Company, obtained a decree in the Circuit enjoining the taxing officers of South Carolina from levying and collecting, and the last-named company from paying, any State, county, or municipal taxes upon its property within that State, upon the ground that by its charter it was exempt from such taxation. This appeal was taken from that decree.

Mr. William Stone, Attorney-General of the State of South Carolina, moved that this cause be advanced on the docket.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.