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FEDERAL COMPRESS CO. v. McLEAN

No. 166.

291 U.S. 17 (1934)

54 S.Ct. 267

78 L.Ed. 622

FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. ET AL. v. McLEAN, SHERIFF, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 8, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Garner W. Green, with whom Mr. Marcellus Green was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. W.W. Pierce, Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi, with whom Mr. Greek L. Rice, Attorney General. was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here on appeal, under § 237 of the Judicial Code, for review of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Mississippi upholding a state excise tax assailed as a forbidden imposition upon a federal instrumentality, and as infringing the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. 166 Miss. 739; 147 So. 325. Sections 3, 57, 220, 221, 225, 242, of c. 88, of the General Laws of Mississippi of 1930 exact...

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