CITY OF DETROIT v. MURRAY CORP.

No. 18.

355 U.S. 489 (1958)

CITY OF DETROIT ET AL. v. MURRAY CORPORATION OF AMERICA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance G. Ingalls argued the cause for the City of Detroit, Michigan, and Hobart Taylor, Jr. for the County of Wayne, Michigan. On the brief were Mr. Ingalls, Julius C. Pliskow and G. Edwin Slater for the City of Detroit, and Mr. Taylor and Albert E. Champney for the County of Wayne, appellants-petitioners.

Roger Fisher argued the cause for the United States, appellee-respondent. On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Rice, J. Dwight Evans, Jr., Robert N. Anderson, Lyle M. Turner and H. Eugene Heine, Jr.

Victor W. Klein argued the cause for the Murray Corporation of America, appellee-respondent. With him on the brief were William M. Saxton and Meyer H. Dreety.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Robert V. Baker and Wm. J. P. Aberg for the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Roger Arnebergh, Peter Campbell Brown, E. R. Christensen, J. Elliott Drinard, Marshall F. Hurley, J. Frank McKenna, John C. Melaniphy and Charles S. Rhyne for the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is the third in a series of cases from the State of Michigan decided today involving a claim of constitutional tax immunity.

In 1952 Murray Corporation was acting as a subcontractor under a prime contract for the manufacture of airplane parts between two other private companies and the United States. From time to time Murray received partial payments from...

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