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CHASSANIOL v. GREENWOOD

No. 428.

291 U.S. 584 (1934)

54 S.Ct. 541

78 L.Ed. 1004

CHASSANIOL v. CITY OF GREENWOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 12, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward W. Smith, with whom Messrs. Sam C. Cook, Marcellus Green, and Garner W. Green were on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. J.A. Lauderdale and A.H. Bell, with whom Mr. J.A. Tyson was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The City of Greenwood, Mississippi, laid by ordinance, in 1931 and in 1932, a tax "upon every person engaged in the business of buying or selling cotton for himself" within the city. In each year a tax of $50 was assessed to Chassaniol. He paid it under protest; and duly applied for refund to the City Council, claiming that the tax was illegal, and that the ordinances and the statutes authorizing it as construed...

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