International Navigation Co. v. Commonwealth
This text of 104 Pa. 38 (International Navigation Co. v. Commonwealth) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The opinion of the court was filed October 1st 1883.
— The learned judge correctly held that the plaintiff in error was not a railroad company within the spirit and meaning of the Act of May 1st 1868. The short railroad which it built was auxiliary to its main business, and had been sold and transferred to another corporation. It now neither owns nor operates any railroad. Its business is operating; a line of steamships. That is its main purpose and object. The incidental power given to the company, which it does not exercise, does not so far change the character of the corporation as to exempt it from the tax in question.
Judgment affirmed.
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