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NORFOLK & W. R. CO. v. TAX COMM'N.

No. 324.

390 U.S. 317 (1968)

NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY CO. ET AL. v. MISSOURI STATE TAX COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 11, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Allen argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Charles L. Bacon, Frederick Beihl, James E. Carr, Melvin J. Strouse and Christopher S. Bond.

William A. Peterson, Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Norman H. Anderson, Attorney General, Thomas J. Downey, First Assistant Attorney General, and Walter W. Nowotny, Jr., Assistant Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE FORTAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case brings before us, once again, troublesome problems arising from state taxation of an interstate commercial enterprise. At issue is a tax assessment pursuant to a Missouri statute specifying the manner in which railroad rolling stock is to be assessed for the State's ad valorem tax on that property.1

In 1964 the Norfolk...

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