JOHNSON OIL CO. v. OKLAHOMA EX REL. MITCHELL

Nos. 22, 23, and 24.

290 U.S. 158 (1933)

JOHNSON OIL REFINING CO. v. OKLAHOMA EX REL. MITCHELL, COUNTY ATTORNEY OF PAWNEE COUNTY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.A. Davidson, with whom Messrs. Charles Y. Freeman, J.F. Dammann, and Preston C. West were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Ed Waite Clark, with whom Mr. J. Berry King, Attorney General of Oklahoma, was on the brief, for appellees.


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

These cases present the question of the validity of property taxes laid in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, under the state statute, upon the entire fleet of appellant's tank cars. The challenge in each case was under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution upon the ground that the cars did not have their situs within the State and hence that the State had no jurisdiction to...

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