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INTERSTATE SAV., LOAN & TRUST CO. v. SHAW et al. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. May 12, 1898.) No. 579. In Error to the Olr· cuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. Michael G. Heintz, for plaintiff In error. E. C. Pyle, for defendants In error. No opinion. Affirmed. JOHNSON v. CITIZENS' ST. R. CO. OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (Ck'eult Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. May 10, 1898.) No. 568. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio. W. B. Sanders, for plaintiff In error. W. H. H. Miller, for defendant In error. No opinion: Affirmed.
LOUISVILLE BANKING CO. v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE. (Circuit Court, D. Kentucky. June 4, 1898.) No. 6.562. Helm & Bruce, for complainant. Henry L. Stone, for city of Louisville. Before HARLAN, Circuit Justice, and TAFT and LURTON, Circuit Judges. TAFT, Circuit Judge. This case presents the same questions as are presented in the case of Louisville Banking Co. v. Stone, Infra, already disposed of, but Involves the taxes for 1893 and ISM. The taxes for 1895, 189ti, 1897, and 1898 were Involved In the prior case. The order wl11 be that the preliminary Injunction prayed for shall Issue, and that the demurrers to the blUs be overruled. . LOUISVILLE BANKING CO. v. STONE et at SAME v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE. (Circuit Court, D. Kentucky. RES JUDICATA.
June 4, 1898.)
Nos. 6,561 and 6,562. Helm & Bruce, for complainant. W. S. Taylor. Atty. Gen.· for Samuel H. Stone, etc., board of valuation and assessment of the state of Kentncky. HenryL, Stone, for city of LouIsville. Before HARLAN, CircuIt Justice, and TAFT and LURTON, Circuit Judges. TAFT, Circuit Judge. These cases present substantially the same questions as those already passed upon In the case of Bank of Kentucky v. Same Defendants, 88 J;'ed. 383. The complainant company was a corporation organized after the act of 1856, but before the Hewitt act. It duly accepted the provisions of the Hewitt act. After the passage of the revenue act of November, 1892, and the adoption of the ordinance by the city of Loulllvllle Imposing a license upon the gross receipts of banks doing business within its limits, a warrant was sued out by the city of Louisville, In Its pollee court, against the Louisville Banking Company, for a failure to pay the l1cense. This bank filed a petition for' a writ· of prohibition In the circuit court ot Jefferson county against R. H. Thompson, the pollee judge, averring that the ordinance of the city of Louisville was void, as Impairing an obligation of the complainant's contract with the state under the HewI.tt act, and that anyautborlty given to the city of Louisville to pass such ordinance by the revenue act of November, 1892, was likewise void, as Impairing the obllgatlon of the contract. The petition prayed that the police judge might be prohibited from taking jurisdiction of the proceeding against compla1llant for a violation of the ordinance. Issue was joined on this petltlQl) by tht"
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defendant, the judge of the pollee court of the city of Loulsvllle. The city of Louisv1lIe, though not a party In name, was in reality the party defendant, and appeared by counsel. Indeed, the proceedings were taken for the purpose of testing the validity of the license ordinance by agreement between the city attorney and the complainant bank. The Jefferson circuit court found the issues in favor of the defendant, and entered a decree dismissing the petition. Thereupon the complainant banking company caused an appeal to be taken in its name from the judgment ot the Jefferson circuit court to the court of appeals, and to that appeal it made the city of Loulsv1lle and R. H. Thompson, the police judge, ·parties. In the court of appeals the cause was argued by the counsel tor the city of Louisville. The court of appeals reversed the judgment of the Jefferson county circuit court (31 S. W. 1013), and In Its opinion held that the ordinance of the city ot Louisville was void, for the reason that the Louisville Banking Company had an Irrevocable contract with the commonwealth upon its due acceptance of the terms of' the Hewitt act, llmitlng the amount of taxes to which it was subject to those Imposed by that act during Its corporate existence. For the reasons already stated In the case ot Bank of Kentucky v. Same Defendants. we think it conclusively established. as between the parties, by a former adjudication, that the complainant had an irrevocable contract, under the Hewitt act, with the commonwealth of Kentucky. by which no greater taxes than therein provided could be imposed upon it by the commonwealth, or under its authority. For the reasons stated in the same opinion. we think the complainant entitled to equitable relief to prevent a violation of that contract by the taxes assessed under the revenue act of 1892. An order for a preliminary injunction therefore must issue in these cases, and the demurrers to the bills must be overruled.
LOUISVILLE CITY NAT. BANK v. STONE et aI. v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE. (Circuit Court. D. Kentucky. June 4, 1898.) Nos. 6.565 and 6.566. Helm & Bruce, for complainant. W. S. Taylor. Atty. Gen., for Samuel H. Stone and others. Henry L. Stone, for city of Louisville. Before HARLAN, Circuit Justice, and TAFT and LUHTON, Circuit Judges. TAFT, Circuit Judge. These cases are controlled by the case of Bank of Commerce v. City of LOUisville, 88 Fed. 398. On the principle of privity and res judicata laid down In that case, we grant the motion for a preliminary Injunction, and overrule the demurrers to the bill.
LYONS v. OTERI. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fitth Circuit. May 17, 1897.) No. 579. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Dismissed, pursuant to the twenty-third rule, for failure to print record.
PERRIS IRR. DIST. v. SAVINGS & TRUST CO. OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, et aI. (Circuit Court, S. D. California. June 29, 1898.) No. 659. Wm. J. Hunsaker, for Savings & Trust Co. and others. Works & Lee, for Perris In. Dist. ROSS, Circuit Judge. The cross bill in this case is Bubstantlally similar to that in the case of Alessandro In. Dist. v. Savings & Trust Co. of Cleveland (just decided) 88 Fed. 928. For the reasons given by the court for overruling the demurrer to the cross b1ll in that case, an order will be entered herein the demurrer, with leave to the defendanta 1:D answer WithIn 20 da7L