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CHARLESTON ASSN. v. ALDERSON

No. 400.

324 U.S. 182 (1945)

65 S.Ct. 624

89 L.Ed. 857

CHARLESTON FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION ET AL. v. ALDERSON, STATE TAX COMMISSIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Campbell Palmer, III, with whom Mr. W. Elliott Nefflen was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Kenneth E. Hines, Assistant Attorney General of West Virginia, with whom Mr. Ira J. Partlow, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellee.

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

The question is whether the tax officials of West Virginia, who have assessed appellants' property for state taxation at its full value, have denied to appellants the equal protection of the laws, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by their mode of valuation, for taxation, of property of the same class belonging to other taxpayers.

Appellants are three...

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