OSBORNE v. MOBILE


83 U.S. 479 (____)

16 Wall. 479

OSBORNE v. MOBILE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. B.R. Curtis and Clarence Seward, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. P. Phillips, contra.


The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

In several cases decided at this term we have had occasion to consider questions of State taxation as affected by this clause of the Constitution. In one,* we held that the State could not constitutionally impose and collect a tax upon the tonnage of freight taken up within its limits and carried beyond them, or taken up beyond its limits and...

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