Talk:Western Union Telephone Company v. Taggart
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| Edition: | Western Union Telephone Company v. Taggart, December 19, 1893, in the circuit court of the county of Marion, and state of Indiana, by the Western Union Telegraph Company against Thomas Taggart, the auditor of that county, and Sterling R Holt, its treasurer, and against the auditors and treasurers of other counties of Indiana, to restrain them from apportioning and collecting a tax assessed upon the plaintiff by the board of tax commissioners of he state under the statute of Indiana of March 6, 1893, c 171, the material parts of which are copied in the margin #fn1 The principal allegations of the bill were as follows: That the plaintiff was, and for many years had been, a corporation of the state of New York, and "the owner of a large amount and number of telegraph poles, lines, wires, cables, fixtures, instruments, machinery, appliances, apparatus, and real estate, constituting a plant for the transmission and conveyance of telegraph messages, which said telegraphic plant extends into and through every state and territory of the United States, the dominion of Canada, and under the Atlantic Ocean to England and to Cuba," and that the plaintiff, by reason of rights under contracts with various persons and corporations in the United States and in other parts of the world, and under letters patent from the United States, and valuable franchises granted by the United States, and by New York and other states of the Union, but not by Indiana, and by many municipalities in those states, and by the governments of England and of Cuba, was "enabled to do a large and profitable business, by and by means of said telegraphic plant, and not only an amount which would be equivalent to rent upon said property, in case the same was owned by another corporation and leased by complainant, but also to make a profit for complainant in addition to said amount so applicable as rent of such telegraphic plant" . |
| Source: | Western Union Telephone Company v. Taggart from http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/163 |
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