Allen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Syllabus

<p>Tie general questions arisingand argued in this case are fully discussed and decided in the case of 'Poindexter v. Greenhorn, ante, 270.</p> <p>The remedy by injunction to prevent the collection of taxes by distraint upon the rolling-stock, machinery, ears and engines, and other property of railroad corporations, after a tender of payment in tax-receivable coupons, is sanctioned by repeated decisions of this court, and has .become common .and unquestioned practice, in- similar cases, where exemptions have been claimed in virtue of the Constitution of the United States; the ground of the jurisdiction being that there is no adequate remedy at law.</p>