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GREAT NORTHERN INS. CO. v. READ

No. 235.

322 U.S. 47 (1944)

64 S.Ct. 873

88 L.Ed. 1121

GREAT NORTHERN LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. READ, INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 24, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Charles R. Holton and John A. Johnson, with whom Mr. Herbert R. Tews was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Fred Hansen, First Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, with whom Mr. Randell S. Cobb, Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. John H. Miley filed a brief, as amicus curiae, in support of petitioner.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This writ brings here for review the action of petitioner, a foreign insurance company, to recover taxes paid to respondent, the Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, which were levied by § 10478, Oklahoma Statutes 1931, as amended by Chapter 1 (a), Title 36, Session Laws of Oklahoma 1941. This was an annual four per cent tax on premiums received by foreign insurance companies in Oklahoma, and it, together with...

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