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N.Y. EX REL. WHITNEY v. GRAVES

No. 218.

299 U.S. 366 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 237

81 L.Ed. 285

NEW YORK EX REL. WHITNEY v. GRAVES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marcien Jenckes, with whom Messrs. John L. Hall, Claude R. Branch, and Richard Wait were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Joseph M. Mesnig, Assistant Attorney General of New York, with whom Mr. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General, and Mr. Henry Epstein, Solicitor General, were on the brief, for appellees.

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

The question here presented relates to the constitutional validity of a tax imposed by the State of New York upon the profits realized by a non-resident upon the sale of a right appurtenant to membership in the New York Stock Exchange.

The relator, C. Handasyde Whitney, is a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a member of a firm doing business in Boston. He and his copartners own a...

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