Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Road Improvement District Number 6 of Little River
Citations
- 256 U.S. 658
Syllabus
<p>1. A judgment of 'a state supreme court sustaining a state tax law-’ over the objection that, as applied in the case,' it violates the Constitution, is reviewable by writ of error. P. 659.</p> <p>2. Railroad property may not be burdened for local improvements, upon a basis so wholly different from that used for ascertaining the contribution demanded of individual owners as necessárily to produce manifest inequality. P. 661.</p> <p>3. Ah Arkansas statute authorizing local assessments for a road improvement, held a denial of the equal protection of the laws, as applied in this case. P. 66!. '</p> <p>,139 Arkansas,' 424, reversed. Certiorari denied.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- finding tax discrimination in a local drainage district’s assessment, and affirming the state’s power to “create taxing districts to meet the expense of local improvements” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
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Judges: McReynolds
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