NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. v. WISCONSIN

Nos. 75, 76.

275 U.S. 136 (1927)

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WISCONSIN. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 21, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Sam T. Swansen and George Lines for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Franklin E. Bump, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, with whom Mr. John W. Reynolds, Attorney General, was on the brief, for the State of Wisconsin.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

These two causes, originally brought in the Circuit Court of Dane County, present the same question. The plaintiff company, a corporation under the laws of Wisconsin, has long carried on therein the business of insuring lives. It seeks to recover excess taxes exacted by the State for the five years, 1918-1923. The courts below held that the exaction was proper under...

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