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FOX FILM CORP. v. DOYAL

No. 118.

286 U.S. 123 (1932)

52 S.Ct. 546

76 L.Ed. 1010

FOX FILM CORP. v. DOYAL ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 16, 1932.

Reargued March 15, 16, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wm. A. Sutherland and Joseph B. Brennan, with whom Mr. Benjamin P. DeWitt was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Orville A. Park, with whom Messrs. George M. Napier, Attorney General of Georgia, and J.A. Smith were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant, a New York corporation which is engaged within the State of Georgia in the business of licensing copyrighted motion pictures, brought this suit to restrain the collection of the state tax upon the gross receipts of royalties under such licenses. The tax was challenged upon the ground that copyrights are instrumentalities of the United States. On demurrer, the suit was dismissed, and the Supreme...

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