BILLINGS v. ILLINOIS

No. 106.

188 U.S. 97 (1903)

BILLINGS v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James F. Meagher, with whom Mr. William D. Guthrie was on the brief, for the plaintiff in error.

Submitted by Mr. Howland J. Hamlin, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

The case presents the question of the constitutionality, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, of section 2 of the inheritance tax law of the State of Illinois. Rev. Stat. Illinois, 1895, c. 120, par. 308. The constitutionality of the law was passed upon in Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, 170 U.S. 283, and is there set...

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