FT. SMITH LUMBER CO. v. ARKANSAS EX REL. ARBUCKLE

No. 394.

251 U.S. 532 (1920)

FORT SMITH LUMBER COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS EX REL. ARBUCKLE, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph M. Hill and Mr. Henry L. Fitzhugh for plaintiff in error.

Mr. John D. Arbuckle, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas, and Mr. George Vaughan for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by the State of Arkansas against the plaintiff in error, a corporation of the State, to recover back taxes alleged to be due upon a proper valuation of its capital stock. The corporation owned stock in two other corporations of the State each of which paid full taxes and it contended that it was entitled to omit the value of such stock from the valuation of its own. This omission is the matter in...

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