BEKINS VAN LINES v. RILEY

No. 13.

280 U.S. 80 (1929)

BEKINS VAN LINES, INCORPORATED, ET AL. v. RILEY, STATE CONTROLLER OF CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 25, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel T. Bush, with whom Mr. William Sea, Jr., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Frank L. Guerena, Deputy Attorney General of California, with whom Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellee.


Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS, announced by the CHIEF JUSTICE.

Appellants, as common carriers, are engaged in transporting freight by motor vehicles for hire along public highways between fixed termini and over regular routes within California. The 1926 Amendment to the Constitution and the statutes of that State lay upon such carriers a tax of 5% of their gross receipts in lieu of all other taxes, while other freight carriers, common and private...

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