AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE CO. v. SPEED

No. 356.

192 U.S. 500 (1904)

24 S.Ct. 365

48 L.Ed. 538

AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY v. SPEED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Josiah Patterson for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles T. Cates, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, with whom Mr. James M. Greer and Mr. W.H. Carroll were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Whether the plaintiff in error is entitled to recover the sum of certain taxes which were paid under protest, on the ground that the taxes were repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, is the question for decision on this record.

Section 28, article II, of the constitution of the State of Tennessee, so far as pertinent to the issue to be decided, is...

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