WISCONSIN GAS CO. v. U.S.

No. 565.

322 U.S. 526 (1944)

WISCONSIN GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Van B. Wake for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Samuel O. Clark, Jr., with whom Solicitor General Fahy, and Messrs. Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Ray A. Brown were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company is a Wisconsin corporation engaged in public utility and associated operations wholly within that State. In 1935 it declared a dividend from its public utility earnings, and in accordance with the requirements of Wisconsin's Privilege Dividend Tax Act (Wisconsin Laws of 1935, c. 505, § 3; c. 552), it paid to the State two and...

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