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VIRGINIA v. IMPERIAL COAL CO.

No. 16.

293 U.S. 15 (1934)

55 S.Ct. 12

79 L.Ed. 171

VIRGINIA v. IMPERIAL COAL SALES CO., INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 5, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry R. Miller, Jr., with whom Mr. Abram P. Staples, Attorney General of Virginia, and Mr. W.W. Martin, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. James R. Caskie and F.P. Christian, Jr., for respondent.

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

The Imperial Coal Sales Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Virginia, sought exoneration from taxes assessed on its capital and income by the Department of Taxation of that State. The taxes were assailed under the commerce clause and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The judgment of the trial court, holding the taxes to be invalid, was affirmed by the Supreme...

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