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NATL. LEATHER CO. v. MASSACHUSETTS

No. 205.

277 U.S. 413 (1928)

48 S.Ct. 534

72 L.Ed. 935

NATIONAL LEATHER COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 28, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Philip Nichols, with whom Mr. Putnam B. Smith was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James S. Eastham, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, with whom Messrs. Arthur K. Reading, Attorney General, F. Delano Putnam, and R. Ammi Cutter, Assistant Attorneys General, were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

The National Leather Co., a Maine corporation, applied by two petitions to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for Suffolk County,1 for the abatement of portions of the taxes that had been exacted of it by the commissioner of corporations and taxation, under Chapter 63 of the General Laws, for the privilege of carrying on business...

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