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UNITED FUEL GAS CO. v. HALLANAN

No. 276.

257 U.S. 277 (1921)

42 S.Ct. 105

66 L.Ed. 234

UNITED FUEL GAS COMPANY v. HALLANAN, STATE TAX COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Malcolm Jackson, with whom Mr. R.G. Altizer and Mr. E.W. Knight were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Wm. Gordon Mathews, with whom Mr. E.T. England, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, Mr. S.B. Avis and Mr. Fred O. Blue were on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity that seeks to restrain the application to the plaintiff of the same statute that has been considered in Eureka Pipe Line Co. v. Hallanan, just decided, ante, 265. Acts of Extraordinary Session, 1919, c. 5. The statute taxes the transportation of natural gas as well as of oil by pipe lines and the plaintiff Gas Company makes...

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