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ST. LOUIS COTTON COMPRESS CO. v. ARKANSAS

No. 120.

260 U.S. 346 (1922)

ST. LOUIS COTTON COMPRESS COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George B. Rose, with whom Mr. Wendell P. Barker, Mr. W.E. Hemingway, Mr. D.H. Cantrell and Mr. J.F. Loughborough were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Wm. T. Hammock and Mr. F.G. Lindsey, with whom Mr. J.S. Utley, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas, and Mr. Elbert Godwin were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the State of Arkansas against a corporation of Missouri authorized to do business in Arkansas. It is brought to recover five per cent. on the gross premiums paid by the defendant, the plaintiff in error, for insurance upon its property in Arkansas, to companies not authorized to do business in the State. A statute of the State purports to impose a liability for this amount as a tax. Crawford...

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