Legal Opinion
Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Hazen
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 5, 1937No. 6708PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
Appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District (now District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia) dismissing appellant’s (plaintiff below) bill to set aside and declare null and void an assessment and taxes levied on its gross earnings from the sale of electricity in the State of Maryland, and from rent of land, buildings, and equipment within that State amounting to $45,303.84 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935.
Paragraph 5 of section 6 of the Act of July 1, 1902 (chapter 1352, 32 Stat. 590, 617, 619), required “all gas, electric…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Crooks v. HarrelsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- United States Glue Co. v. Town of Oak CreekSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- United States v. United Shoe Machinery Co. of New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Houghton v. PayneSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Lang v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Neild v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940
- District of Columbia v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- Cedar Hill Cemetery Corp. v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941
- Mercury Press, Inc. v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1948
- The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company v. District of Columbia, District of Columbia v. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone CompanyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
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