MID-STATES FRGT. LINES v. BATES


200 Misc. 885 (1952)

Mid-States Freight Lines, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Spencer E. Bates et al., Constituting The State Tax Commission, Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Ulster County.

January 23, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boudin, Cohn & Glickstein, Zelby & Burstein, Harris J. Klein and Sol Rubenstein for plaintiffs.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Wendell P. Brown, John C. Crary, Jr., and Robert W. Bush of counsel), for defendants.


SCHIRICK, J.

This action is brought by a number of highway motor carriers, interstate and intrastate, public and private, for a declaration that the highway use tax, also known as the weight-distance tax (L. 1951, ch. 74), is unconstitutional, and for an injunction restraining its enforcement. The validity of the statute is the issue posed by both motions now before the court, plaintiffs' motion for a temporary...

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