COOK v. PENNSYLVANIA


97 U.S. 566 (____)

COOK v. PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin Harris Brewster for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Lyman D. Gilbert, Deputy Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, contra.


MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, of May 20, 1853 (Pamphlet Laws, 683), declares that —

"The State duty to be paid on sales by auction in the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny shall be on all domestic articles and groceries, one-half of one per cent; on foreign drugs, glass, earthenware, hides, marble-work, and dye-woods, three-quarters of...

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