NEW YORK TEL. CO. v. DOLAN

No. 275.

265 U.S. 96 (1924)

NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA & NORFOLK TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. DOLAN, COLLECTOR OF TAXES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 12, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Overton Harris and Mr. Horace Greeley Eastburn for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Caleb S. Layton, with whom Mr. James R. Morford was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by the collector of taxes, the defendant in error, to recover taxes due to the City of Wilmington for the years 1913 to and through 1918. The defendant Telegraph Company, the plaintiff in error, demurred to the declaration on the ground that the statute imposing the taxes deprived it of its property without due process of law and denied to it the equal protection of the laws, contrary to...

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