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PACIFIC FISHERIES v. ALASKA

No. 246.

269 U.S. 269 (1925)

PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES v. ALASKA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Warren Gregory, with whom Messrs. E.S. McCord, A.E. Robertson, H.L. Faulkner and Blair S. Shuman were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. John Rustgard, Attorney General of Alaska, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the Territory of Alaska to recover from the petitioner, Pacific American Fisheries, license taxes alleged to be due upon cases of salmon packed by the defendant at four canneries named. The defendant in its answer set up that the territorial taxing act was contrary to the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, c. 387, (§ 3,) 37 Stat. 512, creating...

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