BUTLER BROS. v. McCOLGAN

No. 283.

315 U.S. 501 (1942)

BUTLER BROTHERS v. McCOLGAN, FRANCHISE TAX COMMISSIONER OF CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leland K. Neeves, with whom Mr. James S. Moore, Jr. was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Valentine Brookes, Deputy Attorney General of California, with whom Messrs. Earl Warren, Attorney General, and H.H. Linney, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal (Judicial Code § 237 (a), 28 U.S.C. § 344 (a)) from a final judgment of the Supreme Court of California sustaining the validity of a statute of California against the claim that as construed and applied to appellant it violated the Fourteenth Amendment. 17 Cal.2d 664, 111 P.2d 334. The statute in question is the Bank and Corporation Franchise...

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