WELCH v. HENRY

No. 13.

305 U.S. 134 (1938)

WELCH v. HENRY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 21, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Campbell for appellant.

Messrs. Leo E. Vaudreuil, Deputy Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Harold H. Persons, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Messrs. Orland S. Loomis, Attorney General, and Joseph E. Messerschmidt, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal presents the question whether the Act of the Wisconsin Legislature of March 27, 1935, which imposed a tax on corporate dividends received by appellant in 1933 at rates different from those applicable in that year to other types of income and without deductions which were allowed in computing the tax on other income, infringes the equal protection and due process...

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