MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit by the Director General of Railroads and five railroad companies to enjoin the collection of a special excise tax assessed against each of the companies for the years 1918 and 1919 under a statute of North Dakota, c. 222, Laws 1919, which declares:
"Every corporation, joint-stock company or association, now or hereafter organized under the law of any other State, the United States...
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