Union Oil Co. v. State

This action was brought to recover $57,333.45, the total amount of fées paid for inspection by respondents of petroleum products between July 18, 1916, and April 30, 1919, under the oil inspection law of 1907 (Laws of 1907, ch. 192, p. 412).

That law having been attacked as unconstitutional finder the commerce clause of the Federal constitution, in a suit by the Standard Oil Company, was sustained by this court. Standard Oil Co. v. Graves, 94 Wash. 291, 162 Pac. 558. It then went to the Federal supreme' court, where it was held unconstitutional as imposing a direct burden upon interstate…