LOCOMOBILE CO. OF AM. v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASS.

No. 734.

246 U.S. 146 (1918)

LOCOMOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles A. Snow, with whom Mr. Frank T. Benner and Mr. William P. Everts were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William Harold Hitchcock, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, with whom Mr. Henry C. Attwill, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

An excise tax of $1,300 imposed on a West Virginia corporation for doing a local business in Massachusetts during the year 1915 is here in question. The state court sustained it. 228 Massachusetts, 117. The corporation is engaged in manufacturing in Connecticut and sells its manufactured articles extensively in interstate commerce. It does both an interstate and a local business in Massachusetts. Each is...

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