Legal Opinion
Hill v. Martin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 16, 1935No. Nos. 193, 194PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.
These suits were brought, on April 1, 1935, under § 266 of the Judicial Code, to enjoin the collection of an inheritance tax in the sum of $12,247,333.52, assessed by New Jersey upon the estate of John T. Dorrance, which was valued at more than $115,000,000. The bills charge that its transfer inheritance tax act, as construed and applied, violates the full faith and credit clause of the Federal Constitution and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The defendants are the State Tax Commissioner and other New Jersey officials.…
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