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HEISLER v. THOMAS COLLIERY CO.

No. 541.

260 U.S. 245 (1922)

HEISLER v. THOMAS COLLIERY COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 27, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis Marshall for plaintiff in error.

Mr. George E. Alter, Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, with whom Mr. Emerson Collins and Mr. George Ross Hull were on the brief, for defendants in error.

Mr. J. Weston Allen, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, as amicus curiae, by special leave of court. Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of that State, and Mr. Charles D. Newton, Mr. Thomas F. McCran, Mr. Ransford W. Shaw, Mr. Oscar L. Young, Mr. Frank C. Archibald, Mr. Herbert Ambrose Rice, Mr. Frank E. Healy and Mr. Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr., Attorneys General respectively of the States of New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware, were on the briefs.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1913 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by an act of its General Assembly [P.L. 1913, p. 639], imposed a tax of 2 1/2% upon anthracite coal, and provided for the distribution of the tax.

The act was adjudged a violation of the constitution of the Commonwealth which required uniformity of taxation. Commonwealth v. Alden Coal Co., 251 Pa. St. 134...

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