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BANK OF CALIFORNIA v. RICHARDSON

No. 262.

248 U.S. 476 (1919)

BANK OF CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, v. RICHARDSON, TREASURER OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 27, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.S. Pillsbury, Mr. F.D. Madison, Mr. Alfred Sutro and Mr. Oscar Sutro for plaintiff in error. Mr. A.D. Plaw was also on the brief.

Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General of the State of California, and Mr. Raymond Benjamin, Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Except as to real estate, which is taxed directly in the name of the owner, all the available resources of banks for the purposes of taxation are reached under the law of California, not by an immediate levy on the banks as the owner, but by annual assessment and tax thereon made by the State Board of Equalization against the stockholders of banks. The state law...

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