STRATTON v. ST. LOUIS S.W. RY.

No. 6.

282 U.S. 10 (1930)

STRATTON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ILLINOIS, v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued October 28, 1930.

Decided November 24, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bayard Lacey Catron, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, with whom Mr. Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Josiah Whitnel, with whom Messrs. J.R. Turney and H.L. Browning were on the brief, for appellee.

The printed arguments dealt only with the merits.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought on July 21, 1927, by St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company to restrain the enforcement of a statute of the State of Illinois (General Corporation Act, § 107), providing for the payment of a minimum franchise tax, upon the ground that the statute as applied to the complainant violated the commerce clause, and the due process and equal protection clauses, of the Federal Constitution...

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