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- Title: Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Deering
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 07, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from the decision of the district court
holding that the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company need not pay
the sum of $262,969.96 to the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick
County to cover the mortgage registration "fees" due on two
mortgages made by the railroad on all of its property. The suit
was one filed by the railroad to recover these taxes which had
been paid to the defendant county officials under protest and the
county officials appeal from the adverse decision in the district
court. The case below was submitted to the court upon an agreed
statement of facts which we shall condense to a certain extent.
The Missouri Pacific for approximately twenty-three years prior
to March 1, 1956, had been in reorganization proceedings in the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Missouri, Eastern Division, under the provisions of Section 77 of
the Bankruptcy Act (U.S.C. Title 11, Section 205) and all of the
property of the railroad had been owned and operated by the
trustees appointed by the court and under the jurisdiction of the
court.