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FORD MOTOR CO. v. BEAUCHAMP

No. 17.

308 U.S. 331 (1939)

FORD MOTOR CO. v. BEAUCHAMP, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gaius G. Gannon, with whom Mr. Palmer Hutcheson was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Glenn R. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, with whom Messrs. Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General, and W.F. Moore, First Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for determination in this proceeding is the validity, as applied to this petitioner, of a statute of the State of Texas levying an annual franchise tax on all corporations chartered or authorized to do business in Texas, measured by a graduated charge upon such proportion of the outstanding capital stock, surplus and undivided profits of the corporation, plus its long term obligations, as the gross...

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