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BOARD OF EDUCATION v. ILLINOIS

No. 103.

203 U.S. 553 (1906)

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE KENTUCKY ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 24, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles H. Aldrich, with whom Mr. Henry S. McAuley and Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edward M. Ashcraft, with whom Mr. William H. Stead, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

This writ of error is directed to a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois sustaining a tax assessed against plaintiff in error under the inheritance tax law of that State, passed June 15, 1895, entitled "An act to tax gifts, legacies and inheritances in certain cases, and to provide for the collection of the same." Laws of 1895, p. 301.

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