GWIN, ETC., INC. v. HENNEFORD

No. 75.

305 U.S. 434 (1939)

GWIN, WHITE & PRINCE, INC. v. HENNEFORD ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank S. Bayley, with whom Messrs. Carl E. Croson and Ofell H. Johnson were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. R.G. Sharpe, Assistant Attorney General of Washington, with whom Mr. G.W. Hamilton, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal raises the single question whether a Washington tax measured by the gross receipts of appellant from its business of marketing fruit shipped from Washington to the places of sale in various states and in foreign countries is a burden on interstate and foreign commerce prohibited by the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution.

Appellant, a Washington...

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