delivered the opinion of the Court.
This сase involves franchise taxes imposed by Kentucky in respect of railroad lines in that State that are a part of the system of appellant, the Southern Railway Company, a Virginia corporation, and here referred to as the Southern system. A judgment of thе circuit court of
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Woodford county affirmed in the highest court of the State,
After receiving our opinion and mandate, the court of appeals of Kentucky remanded the case to the circuit court; and there the Commonwealth amended its petition so as to claim, in addition to its earlier demands, franchise taxes in respect of the Kentucky mileage of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific. The facts were stipulated. Appellants maintained below that the proceedings were in conflict with our mandate and that to enforce the taxes claimed would be to tax property outside the Commonwealth. The court adjudged the Commonwealth entitled to' recover as to the Kentucky mileage of both companies on the basis of the same values that in the former judgment had been assigned to the line of the Southern Railway Company in' Kentuсky alone. The court of appeals affirmed. 238
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Ky. 638;
Our former decision merely held that the particular application of thе state statute then under consideration was repugnant to the due process- clause. The judgment now before us is based on'a different claim. The remanding of the case by the court of appeals and the filing of an amended petition in the circuit court by the Commonwealth . and the trial thereon were not inconsistent with the mandate of this court.
Mutual Life Ins. Co.
v.
Hill,
The additional values adjudged are based on average net earnings per mile of the system in the year preceding that for which the franchise taxes are imposed. As shown in our former opinion, net earnings of the 127.63 miles of the Southern Railway in Kentucky were very small, for 1917 and there was a large deficit in 1918. . But the net earnings per mile of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, having 197.5 miles in Kentucky, for both years were high when compared with the avеrage of the system. The values on which the last mentioned company separately paid franchise taxes were excludеd.
The Kentucky mileage used in the calculations included certain trackage rights and also the Kentucky lines of the Mobile & Ohio, the Cumberland Railroad and the Cumberland Railway. The court of appeals held that the lines of these three companies were nоt a part of the system.
The judgment requires that, - in addition to the taxes levied for the two years, there.shall bе paid a penalty of twenty per cent, on the taxes based on the omitted assessment, “ which shall be collected and aсcounted .for as other taxes.” § 4241. Seventy-five per cent, of the amount so added is for the compensation of officers prosecuting the action. The appellant company maintains that it is not liable for the taxes or the penalty becausе during 1918 and 1919 the system was in the possession and control of the Director General. And the latter, says that the enforcement of the pеnalty against him would violate the Acts of Congress under which the railroads were taken and operated.-
Neither contention can be sustained.
The opinion below shows thаt the property was not assessed when it should have been because of the failure of the company to report as required. It was not relieved of that duty by any federal law. On the contrary the Act of March 21, 1918, 40 Stab. 451, after requiring every agreement- for comрensation to the carriers to provide that all taxes during the period of federal, control other than certain war taxеs should be paid out of operating revenues, § 1, declared that nothing in the Act should be construed to amend, repeal, impair оr affect 'the existing laws or powers of the States in relation to taxation. § 15. Whatever may be the rights of the company as between it and the Director General, its obligations under state tax laws remain unaffected by federal enactments.
Referring to the enfоrcement of the judgment, the court of appeals said (238 Ky., p. 661; 38 S. W. (2d), p. 706):
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The State cannot compel the government of the United States to pay the taxes or the penalty, but it has a lien on the property, which should have been assessed, to secure payment of the taxes,” and declared that the penalty is not one where the element of punishment predominates. Our decisions in
Missouri Pacific R. Co.
v.
Ault,
Affirmed.