SOUTHERN GAS CORP. v. ALABAMA

No. 570.

301 U.S. 148 (1937)

SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS CORP. ET AL. v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 26, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Forney Johnston and Joseph F. Johnston for appellants.

Mr. Frontis H. Moore, with whom Messrs. A.A. Carmichael, Attorney General of Alabama, and Noel T. Dowling were on the brief, for appellee.


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

This case presents the question of the validity of a franchise tax assessed pursuant to a statute of the State of Alabama upon the Southern Natural Gas Corporation. The imposition of the tax was assailed as a direct burden upon interstate commerce and as also depriving the corporation of its property without due process of law and denying it the equal protection...

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