SANDS
v.
EDMUNDS

U.S. | 1886-02-01
116 U.S. 585 Supreme Court of the United States (1886) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 29 L. Ed. 739 · 6 S. Ct. 516 · 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1800 · SCDB 1885-132
Cited by 5 cases
Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Matthews

Mr. Justice Matthews delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the facts as above reported, he continued;

The right of the plaintiff in error to .pay his license tax as a lawyer in coupons, receivable for taxes, as described in his petition, is affirmed by tie opinion and judgment in the case of Royall v. The State of Virginia, just decided, ante, 572. His remedy to have them received for verification and to recover back the money paid for his license, is secured' to him by the terms of the act of January 14,1882, which, for such purposes, was upheld by this court as a valid enactment in Antoni v. Greenhow, 107 U. S. 769.

On the authority of these decisions

The judgments of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and of the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, Virginia, are reversed, and the cause is remanded to said Circuit Court, with instructions to take further proceedings according to law and in conformity with this opinion.

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  • McCullough v. Virginia, 172 U.S. 102 (U.S. 1898)
    …4 U. S. 317, 322; Moore v. Greenhow, 114 U. S. 338, 340; Marye v. Parsons, 114 U. S. 325; Barry v. Edmunds, 116 U. S. 550; Chaffin v. Taylor, 116 U. S. 567, 571; Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572; Royall v. Virginia, 121 U. S. 102; Sands v. Edmunds, 116 U. S. 585; Stewart v. Virginia, 117 U. S. 612; In re Ayers, 123 U. S. 443; McGahey v. Virginia, 135 U. S. 662. For the first time in the history of this litigation has any appellate court, either state or Federal, distinctly ruled that the coupon provision o…
  • McGAHEY v. Virginia, 135 U.S. 662 (U.S. 1890)
    …tes. Several other coupon cases came before this court in October term, 1885, and were decided in February, 1886. They were Barry v. Edmunds, 116 U. S. 550; Chaffin v. Taylor, 116 U. S. 567; Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572 ; and Sands v. Edmunds, 116 U. S. 585. These cases do little more than repeat the views of the court contained in the coupon cases decided in the previous year, except perhaps in deciding in the case of Royall v. Virginia, that the license tax of a practising. lawyer was a tax within th…
  • Ex parte Royall, 117 U.S. 254 (U.S. 1886)

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