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CAMPBELL v. CALIFORNIA

No. 70.

200 U.S. 87 (1906)

CAMPBELL v. CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles H. Garroutte, with whom Mr. William N. Goodwin and Mr. Curtis H. Lindley were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General of the State of California, with whom Mr. E.B. Power, Mr. Lewis F. Byington and Mr. I. Harris were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1893 a law was enacted in California, imposing a charge on collateral inheritances and on bequests and devises. California Stat. 1893, p. 193. The burdens which the law imposed were not laid upon inheritances, bequests or devises in favor of the father, mother, husband, wife, children, brother or sister of a decedent, or wife or widow of a son, or the husband of a daughter...

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