READING RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA


82 U.S. 232 (1872)

15 Wall. 232

READING RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James E. Gowen and Robert E. Lamberton, for the plaintiff in error; a brief of Mr. J.W. Simonton, for other railroad companies interested with the plaintiff in error in the question involved, being filed by leave of the court.

Mr. F. Carroll Brewster, Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Lewis Waln Smith, contra:


Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

We are called upon, in this case, to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, affirming the validity of a statute of the State, which the plaintiffs in error allege to be repugnant to the Federal Constitution.

The case presents the question whether the statute in question, — so far as it imposes a tax upon freight taken up within the State...

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