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Title: State Tax on Railway Gross Receipts. Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1872
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 84 KB

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Messrs. James E. Gowen and R. A. Lamberton, for the plaintiff in error: We assume that the position taken by us in the case of The State Freight Tax2 –the position, namely, that a State tax upon freight generally is unconstitutional, as applied to the transportation of merchandise from one State to another–will be sustained by the judgment of this court. Setting out, then, as with a postulate, that such a tax is unconstitutional, we say: