U.S. v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY

No. 417.

322 U.S. 174 (1944)

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 1, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Judge Advocate General Cramer, and Messrs. Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, Alvin J. Rockwell, and Paul F. Mickey were on the brief, for the United States; and Messrs. Elder W. Marshall and Carl E. Glock submitted for the Mesta Machine Co., — appellants.

Mr. Edward G. Bothwell, with whom Mr. John J. O'Connell was on the brief, for appellee.

By special leave of Court, Miss Anne X. Alpern, with whom Messrs. Ray L. Chesebro, L.E. Latourette, William E. Kemp, Richmond B. Keech, J.H. O'Connor, and Charles S. Rhyne were on the brief, for the member cities of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, as amici curiae, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are called upon to solve another of the recurring conflicts between the power to tax and the right to be free from taxation which are inevitable where two governments function at the same time and in the same territory. In arguing the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, Luther Martin, Attorney General of Maryland, himself a member of the Constitutional Convention...

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