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General Oil Co. Vs. Crain

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 23, 1908

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  1. Semple Vs. Hagar US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1866
  2. Callan Vs. Bransford US Supreme Court · Mar 09, 1891
  3. Newman Vs. Gates US Supreme Court · Jan 07, 1907
  4. Claiborne County Vs. Brooks US Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1884
  5. Coe Vs. Errol US Supreme Court · Jan 25, 1886
  6. U.S. 211 (1908) U.S. Supreme Court General Oil Co. v. Crain
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  7. U.S. 211 (1908) General Oil Company v. Crain
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  8. Norton v. Shelby
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  9. Freeport Water Co. v. Freeport
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  10. Chambers v. Baltimore
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  11. Ohio R. Co., 207 U. S. 142 . A review of these cases becomes necessary. In Semple v. Hagar
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  12. was rightly decided. That was seemingly considered out of the power of this Court to inquire into. Norton v. Shelby
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  13. U. S. 400 , 111 U. S. 410 , was cited. Smith v. Adsit
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  14. In Callan v. Bransford
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  15. In Freeport Water Co. v. Freeport
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  16. In Newman v. Gates
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  17. In Chambers v. Baltimore
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  18. cases cited by plaintiff in error to sustain the jurisdiction of this Court cases in the federal courts. Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  19. U. S. 270 , and Chaffin v. Taylor
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  20. Page 209 U. S. 225 of Virginia, and they involve questions very much like those in the case at bar. Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  21. representing and acting for the latter is not an agent of the former. That and other cases were reviewed in Belknap v. Schild
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  22. reviewed. The principles of the cases which we have cited were applied by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in Lynn v. Polk
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  23. protection of the Constitution of the United States. A similar distinction was attempted to be made in Poindexter v. Greenhow
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  24. And inquiries of fact may be necessary to exhibit the unconstitutionality of a statute, as in Reagan v. Farmers'
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  25. Loan & Trust Co., 154 U. S. 362 , and Smyth v. Ames
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  26. which constitutes interstate commerce are easy to mark. The first is defined Page 209 U. S. 229 in Coe v. Errol
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  27. to the state of its destination, or started on its ultimate passage. The latter is defined to be, in Brown v. Houston
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  28. point of time at which it arrives at its destination. But intermediate between these points questions may arise. State v. Engle
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  29. State v. Carrigan
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  30. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557. In Pittsburg Coal Company v. Bates
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  31. ceased to be interstate commerce, and was subject to taxation by the State of Louisiana. In Diamond Match Company v. Ontonagon
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  32. In Kelley v. Rhoads
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  33. commerce. Necessarily, however, the length and purpose of the interruption of transit must be considered. In State v. Engle
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  34. See also, in State v. Carrigan
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  35. was held to be in course of transportation, and not subject to the taxing power of the state. In Burlington Lumber Co. v. Willetts
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  36. there not in necessary delay or accommodation to the means of transportation, as Page 209 U. S. 231 in State v. Engle
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  37. mere transportation of the oil. The case therefore comes under the principle announced in American Steel & Wire Co. v. Speed
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  38. of taxation. It may be that such power is more limited than the power to enact inspection laws. Patapsco Guano Co. v. Board
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  39. is a formal party and is successful in the inferior court, is not a suit within the meaning of the Amendment. Cohen v. Virginia
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  40. inspection law, which it purports to be. Perhaps it could not be under the doctrine announced and applied in Minnesota v. Barber
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  41. U. S. 313 , and Brimmer v. Rebman
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  42. think that the statute, as enforced in the case at bar, is bad as a taxing law. The case of American Steel & Wire Co. v. Speed
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  43. that transportation, and was therefore protected from state taxation by the commerce clause of the Constitution. Coe v. Errol
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  44. Kelley v. Rhoads
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  45. as essential by the court, which are absent here. The property had either not begun its interstate journey, as in Coe v. Errol
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  46. ubi supra, and Diamond Match Company v. Ontonagon
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  47. or it had ended that journey, and was held for sale in common with other property in the state, as in Brown v. Houston
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  48. Pittsburg Coal Company v. Bates
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  49. U. S. 577 , and American Steel & Wire Co. v. Speed
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court General Oil Co. v. Crain
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