Wisconsin v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.

This case, involving another application of the Wisconsin Privilege Dividend Tax considered in Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co., ante, p. 435, is governed by that decision except for a contention made by this respondent but not pressed here in Penney1's case.

The Commerce Clause is invoked. Büt it is too late in the day to find offense to that Clause because a state tax is imposed on corporate net income of an interstate enterprise which is attributable to earnings within the taxing state, Matson Navigation Co. v. State Board, 297 U. S. 441. That liability for such a tax is made con-, tingent…