Pullman Co. v. Knott

Suit was brought by the Pullman Company to1 enjoin the State Comptroller from enforcing, by levy upon cars of the complainant company, the payment of the sum of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) upon each one hundred ($100.00) dollars of the gross *11receipts of the company derived from, business done between points in this State by such cars, such tax being by statute imposed upon all sleeping and parlor car companies in the State. Sec. 47 Chap. 5596 Acts of 1907; Sec. 45 Chap. 6421 Acts of 1913; Sec. 596qq Compiled Laws of 1914. Relief is sought upon the theory that the statute 'imposing such…