ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY
v.
PENNSYLVANIA

U.S. | 1872-12-01
15 Wall. 282 Supreme Court of the United States (1872) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 21 L. Ed. 164 · SCDB 1872-088 · 1872 U.S. LEXIS 1253
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Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice STRONG

Mr. Justice STRONG gave the judgment of the court.

He stated briefly that the'question presented in the case was the same which the court had considered and answered in the preceding one; and that for the reasons given in the opinion of the court there, the act, so. far as it taxed the sort of freight above mentioned, w^S-^to be held unconstitutional. As in the preceding case, therefore, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsj'lvania was reversed, and the record remitted for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion of this court.

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    …e question now presented is whether the power to tax its occupation can be exercised by placing a specific tax on each message sent out of the-State, or sent by public officers on the business of the United States. In Case of the State Freight Tax (15 Wall. 282) this court decided that a law of Pennsylvania requiring transportation companies doing business in that State to pay a fixed sum as a tax “ on each two thousand pounds of freight carried,” without regard to the distance moved, or' charge made, was…
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    …he nature of the exaction is not changed: by adding to it similar conditions for allowing transportation wholly within the state.” pp. 276, 277. [*242] In the case of the Erie Railway Company (a corporation of the state of New York) v. Pennsylvania, 15 Wall. 282, decided at the same time, it appeared that the road of that company was constructed for a short distance through a part of the state of Pennsylvania, and that a similar tax was levied upon- it for freight carried over its road. This was held to he…

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