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Plummer Vs. Coler

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 14, 1900

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  1. Society for Savings Vs. Coite US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1867
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  2. Mager Vs. Grima US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1850
  3. Scholey Vs. Rew US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1874
  4. U.S. 115 (1900) U.S. Supreme Court Plummer v. Coler
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  5. U.S. 115 (1900) Plummer v. Coler
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  6. question that a state cannot, in the exercise of the power of taxation, tax obligations of the United States. Weston v. Charleston
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  7. Bank of Commerce v. New
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  8. Home Insurance Co. v. New
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  9. a state, or under its authority by its public municipal bodies, are not taxable by the United States. Mercantile Bank v. New
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  10. Pollock v. Farmers'
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  11. of decision proceed is the same, namely, as was said by Mr. Justice Nelson, in Collector Page 178 U. S. 118 v. Day
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  12. and, as was said by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER in Pollock v. Farmers'
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  13. of Massachusetts, regarding the tax as one on franchise, and not on property, held the tax to be lawful. Commonwealth v. Provident
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  14. the franchise and privileges of the corporation, and was lawful so far as related to federal securities. Commonwealth v. Hamilton
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  15. was not a tax on property, but on the corporation as such, and rendered judgment accordingly for the plaintiff. Coite v. Society
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  16. regulation, and must consequently be enjoyed subject to such conditions as the state sees fit to impose. Strode v. Commonwealth
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  17. Clymer v. Commonwealth
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  18. the tax not upon the property, but upon the privilege of acquiring it by will or under the intestate laws. Eyre v. Jacob
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  19. Miller v. Commonwealth
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  20. the law, a privilege, and that the authority which confers the privilege may impose conditions upon it. Kochersperger v. Drake
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  21. not how its capital stock or property may be invested, whether in United States securities or otherwise. People v. Home
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  22. Insurance Co., 92 N.Y. 328. In Monroe Savings Bank v. Rochester
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  23. Bronson, 150 N.Y. 1, and it seems to have been recognized in the Supreme Court of the United States, United States v. Perkins
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  24. from the state. Let us now proceed to a similar survey of the federal authorities on this subject. Mager v. Grima
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  25. In Van Allen v. The
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  26. Provident Insurance Co. v. Massachusetts
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  27. Wall. 611, and Hamilton Company v. Massachusetts
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  28. be practically rendered by state legislation less valuable -- was fully argued. See also the case of Scholey v. Rew
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  29. Wall. 331. Next worthy of notice is the case of Home Insurance Company v. New
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  30. In United States v. Perkins
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  31. This was the view taken of a similar Page 178 U. S. 131 tax by the Court of Appeals of Maryland in State v. Dalrymple
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  32. Schoolfield's Executor v. Lynchburg
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  33. Strode v. Commonwealth
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  34. In re Cullum, 145 N.Y. 593. In this last case, as well as in Wallace v. Myers
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  35. upon the estate of the decedent or the privilege of acquiring property by inheritance. Page 178 U. S. 132 Eyre v. Jacob
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  36. Such a tax was also held by this Court to be free from any constitutional objection. Mager v. Grima
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  37. To the same effect is United States v. Fox
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  38. it the duty of the executor to pay the amount of the tax before the legacy passes to the legatee. In New York v. Roberts
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  39. constituted a portion of the corporate business, no tax could be imposed by the state under the doctrine of Brown v. Maryland
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  40. In Magoun v. Illinois
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  41. of the laws. The law in question had been upheld by the supreme court of the state in the case of Kochersperger v. Drake
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  42. taxes has been declared, and the principles upon which they are based explained, in United States v. Perkins
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  43. Minot v. Winthrop
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  44. and in Scholey v. Rew
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  45. In closing our review of the federal decisions, the case of Wallace v. Myers
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  46. F. 184, may be properly referred to, especially as it has been cited with approval by this Court in United States v. Perkins
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  47. to natural persons. Without undertaking to go beyond what has already been decided by this Court in Mager v. Grima
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  48. in Scholey v. Rew
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  49. Wall. 331, and in United States v. Perkins
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Plummer v. Coler
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