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KNIGHTS v. JACKSON

No. 167.

260 U.S. 12 (1922)

43 S.Ct. 1

67 L.Ed. 102

KNIGHTS v. JACKSON, TREASURER AND RECEIVER GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 16, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Philip Nichols for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, Jr., with whom Mr. J. Weston Allen, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Massachusetts taxes of a kind that used to be imposed by the cities and towns now are imposed and collected by the Commonwealth and afterwards distributed to the cities and towns to be expended for various public purposes. In this way are collected and distributed, with necessary exceptions, taxes upon the interest from debts, dividends from stock and from partnerships, Gen. Acts 1916, c. 269, § 2, and...

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