Shelton v. Platt

Citations

• 139 U.S. 591
• 11 S. Ct. 646
• 35 L. Ed. 273
• 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2411

Syllabus

<p>While an unconstitutional tax may confer no right, impose no duty and support no obligation, the trespass resulting from proceedings to collect such void tax cannot be restrained by injunction, where irreparable injury or other ground for equitable interposition is not shown to exist.</p>