BANKER BROTHERS v. PENNSYLVANIA

No. 72.

222 U.S. 210 (1911)

BANKER BROTHERS COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward J. Kent and Mr. Harvey A. Miller for plaintiff in error.

Mr. George H. Calvert, with whom Mr. John C. Bell, Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, Mr. James M. Magee, Mr. Donald Thompson and Mr. Murdoch Kendrick, were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

The Banker Brothers Company, a corporation doing business in Pittsburg, was charged, as retail venders, with a tax of 1 per cent on $351,000 on sales of automobiles to persons in Pennsylvania under a statute of that State. It denied liability on the ground that the sales were interstate transactions. A decision of that point involves the question as to whether Banker Brothers...

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