Allen v. Pullman Palace Car
| Decision Date | 13 April 1891 |
| Citation | 35 L.Ed. 303,11 S.Ct. 682,139 U.S. 658 |
| Parties | ALLEN, Comptroller, v. PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR Co., (two cases.) |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
G. W. Pickle, Atty. Gen. Tenn., for appellant.
E. S. Isham and John S. Runnells, for appellee.
These were bills filed in the circuit court of the United States for the middle district of Tennessee against the comptroller of that state for an injunction restraining him from the collection from complainant of certain privilege taxes or license fees for the years 1887, 1888, and 1889, under laws of the state of Tennessee in that behalf, which complainant averred to be in conflict with the federal and state constitutions, and the taxes accordingly illegal and void. In No. 1,381, the bill alleged that the comptroller was threatening to issue his warrant for the collection of the taxes, and to levy it upon complainant's sleeping-cars, In No. 1,382 complainant averred that the comptroller had issued his warrant to the sheriff of the county of Davidson, Tenn., and the sheriff, by his deputy, one Hobson, ...
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