MEMPHIS GAS CO. v. BEELER

No. 499.

315 U.S. 649 (1942)

MEMPHIS NATURAL GAS CO. v. BEELER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 30, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter P. Armstrong, with whom Mr. T.A. McEachern, Jr. was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. Whitworth Stokes and Lewis S. Pope, with whom Messrs. Roy H. Beeler, Attorney General of Tennessee, and W.F. Barry, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellees.


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

The question for decision is whether a tax laid pursuant to §§ 1316-1318 of the Tennessee Code of 1932 upon the Memphis Natural Gas Company's net income derived from sales of natural gas in Tennessee, during the years 1932 to 1935, violates the commerce clause.

The case comes here by appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, which sustained the tax and reversed a decree of...

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