Legal Opinion
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Territory of Hawaii
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 5, 1938No. 94PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Petitioner, a Hawaiian corporation, is a common carrier of freight and passengers by water between different points in the Territory. A' substantial part of its gross income is derived from transporting freight destined for trans-shipment to foreign or mainland ports. In 1913 a statute of the Territory created a Public Utilities Commission, prescribed its duties and levied a uniform semiannual tax — denominated a fee 1 — upon all public utilities doing business in the Territory, partially to defray the Commission’s expenses. Petitioner paid the tax until 1923, when it refused to malee further…
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