ATL. & PAC. TEA CO. v. GROSJEAN

No. 652.

301 U.S. 412 (1937)

GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO. ET AL. v. GROSJEAN, SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 17, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Monte M. Lemann and Robert L. Wright, with whom Messrs. Joseph G. Gamble and J. Blanc Monroe were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. Martin A. Schenck and William J. Carr filed a brief on behalf of F.W. Woolworth Co., appellant.

Mr. Robert L. Wright also filed a brief on behalf of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., appellant.

Mr. E. Leland Richardson, Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana, with whom Messrs. Gaston L. Porterie, Attorney General, and J.C. Daspit and F.A. Blanche, Assistant Attorneys General, were on the brief, for appellees.


Mr. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This cause presents the questions whether the method prescribed by a chain store tax act for ascertaining the rate of taxation offends the Fourteenth Amendment and the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution.

In 1932 the legislature of Louisiana adopted an act levying an occupation or license tax upon chain stores...

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