AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. INDIANA

Nos. 469, 470, 471.

165 U.S. 255 (1897)

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. INDIANA. ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. INDIANA. UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY v. INDIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 1, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell for the express companies. Mr. Clarence A. Seward for the Adams Express Company, and Mr. Frank H. Platt for the United States Express Company, were on his brief.

Mr. Attorney General and Mr. William A. Ketcham, Attorney General of the State of Indiana, for defendant in error. Mr. Alonzo Greene Smith, Mr. Merrill Moores and Mr. Leon O. Bailey were on their brief.

Mr. James C. Carter for the American Express Company.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

These were three actions instituted by the State of Indiana, in the Circuit Court of Marion County in that State, against the American Express Company, the Adams Express Company and the United States Express Company, to recover unpaid taxes for the years 1893 and 1894.

The defendants filed answers, setting up, among other defences, that the act under which...

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