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Mcgahey Vs. Virginia

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 19, 1890

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  1. Antoni Vs. Greenhow US Supreme Court · Mar 05, 1883
  2. Barry Vs. Edmunds US Supreme Court · Feb 07, 1886
  3. Sands Vs. Edmunds US Supreme Court · Feb 01, 1886
  4. Hartman Vs. Greenhow US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1880
  5. Carter Vs. Greenhow US Supreme Court · Apr 20, 1885
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  6. Pleasants Vs. Greenhow US Supreme Court · Apr 20, 1885
  7. Marye Vs. Parsons US Supreme Court · Apr 20, 1885
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  8. U.S. 662 (1890) U.S. Supreme Court McGahey v. Virginia
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  9. U.S. 662 (1890) McGahey v. Virginia
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  10. Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia Syllabus the Decisions Hartman V. Greenhow
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  11. authority of its prior decisions whatever may have been the former views of any member of the Court. In McGahey v. Virginia
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  12. Bryan v. Virginia
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  13. and Cooper v. Virginia
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  14. well as the acts which require their rejection, are not laws impairing the obligation of the contract. In Ellett v. Virginia
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  15. of suit, the taxpayer is entitled to tender coupons in payment of the costs, as well as of the taxes. In Cuthbert v. Virginia
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  16. regard to the obligations of the state is unreasonable, and impairs the obligations of the contract. In Hucless v. Childrey
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  17. the state with the holders of the coupons of its bonds that they shall be received in payment of taxes. In Vashon v. Greenhow
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  18. impair, and such was, for several years, the uniform holding of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. See Antoni v. Wright
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  19. Wise v. Rogers
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  20. Clarke v. Tyler
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  21. argument to this effect is contained in the opinion of the court tendered in one of the cases now before us, Vashon v. Greenhow
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  22. solemn engagement of the state, to use them in payment of state taxes and public dues. This was determined in Hartman v. Greenhow
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  23. in Antoni v. Greenhow
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  24. banks, and repealing all other acts inconsistent therewith. This law was under consideration in the case of Antoni v. Wright
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  25. of taxes and state dues, and that the act of 1872, so far as it conflicted with this contract, was void. In Clarke v. Tyler
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  26. Grattan 134, decided in 1878, it was said that this decision in Antoni v. Wright
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  27. the holders of the coupons. The validity of this act came before this Court for consideration in the case of Hartman v. Greenhow
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  28. tax paying coupons of 1871 and 1879. One of these bills, approved the 14th of January, 1882, recited in full in Antoni v. Greenhow
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  29. the act of January 26th. The validity of these acts came before this Court for consideration in the case of Antoni v. Greenhow
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  30. et seq., came before this Court for consideration. There were eight of these cases. One of them, Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  31. same. The Court distinguished this remedy of the taxpayer from that which was in question in the case of Antoni v. Greenhow
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  32. tax, after having duly tendered coupons in payment thereof. Therefore, without expressly overruling the case of Antoni v. Greenhow
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  33. opinion on the part of the Chief Justice and three of the Associate Justices. Two other of the Coupon Cases, White v. Greenhow
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  34. and Chaffin v. Taylor
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  35. they had tendered coupons in payment thereof, and were in all substantial respects similar to the case of Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  36. and were decided in the same way. In one of them ( Chaffin v. Taylor
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  37. s property, and the decree was affirmed by this Court upon the same grounds which were taken in the case of Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  38. The fifth case ( Carter v. Greenhow
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  39. because the right claimed was not one of the rights referred to in that section. The sixth case, Pleasants v. Greenhow
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  40. for on the same ground of deprivation of rights which was preferred as the cause of action in the case of Carter v. Greenhow
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  41. its decree was affirmed by this Court for the same reason which prevailed in that case. The seventh case was Marye v. Parsons
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  42. of the state to receive coupons in payment of such taxes and demands. The remaining case was that of Moore v. Greenhow
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  43. Court of Richmond, and its decision was affirmed, in conformity with the conclusion arrived at in the case of Anotoni v. Greenhow
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  44. other coupon cases came before this Court in October term, 1885, and were decided in February, 1886. They were Barry v. Edmunds
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  45. U. S. 572 , and Sands v. Edmunds
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  46. Court contained in the coupon cases decided in the previous year, except perhaps in deciding, in the case of Royall v. Virginia
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  47. of the act of 1871, and payable in coupons attached to bonds issued under that act. In another case, Royall v. Virginia
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  48. it in payment of taxes, etc., and that this showed a good tender, and brought the case within the ruling in Royall v. Virginia
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  49. us. It remains to apply the law as we conceive it to be to the several cases now under consideration. Bryan v. Virginia
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court McGahey v. Virginia
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