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AMERICAN MFG. CO. v. ST. LOUIS

No. 365.

250 U.S. 459 (1919)

AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S. Mayner Wallace, with whom Mr. Shepard Barclay was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Everett Paul Griffin, with whom Mr. Charles H. Daues was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The question is whether an ordinance of the City of St. Louis levying against manufacturers, especially as against plaintiff in error, a West Virginia corporation, a tax imposed as a condition of the grant of a license to carry on a manufacturing business in that city, but the amount of which is ascertained by and proportioned to the amount of sales of the manufactured goods, whether sold within or without the...

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