YAZOO & M. V. R. CO. v. GROSJEAN

No. 339.

16 F.Supp. 276 (1936)

YAZOO & M. V. R. CO. v. GROSJEAN, Sup'r of Public Accounts.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

September 11, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. C. Beckett, of Chicago, Ill., Arthur A. Moreno and Selim B. Lemle, both of New Orleans, La., E. C. Craig, of Chicago, Ill., and Chas. N. Burch, of Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Gaston L. Porterie, Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, and Justin C. Daspit, F. A. Blanche, and E. L. Richardson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before FOSTER and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges, and BORAH, District Judge.


BORAH, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a common carrier engaged in operating a railroad system in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, brings this bill against defendant to enjoin the collection of a tax alleged to be unconstitutional as a regulation of and a direct burden on interstate commerce.

The statutes in question are Act No. 26 of the Third Extraordinary Session of the Legislature of Louisiana...

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