People ex rel. Brooklyn Union Gas Co. v. Morgan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 6th day of July, 1900, directed to William J. Morgan, as Comptroller of the State of Mew York, requiring- him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular the proceedings had in relation to the tax imposed upon the relator for the year ending October 31, 1898.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The relator is required by section 186 of the Tax Law (Laws of 1896, chap. 908) to “ pay. to thé State for the privilege of exercising its corporate franchises or carrying on its business in such corporate or organized capacity in this State an annual tax which shall be five-tenths of one per centum upon its gross earnings from all sources within this State.”
The gross receipts of the relator for the year ending October 31, 1898, were $3,805,626.15, and on this amount the Comptroller fixed the tax under the statute above referred to at five-tenths of one per cent, amounting to…
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