Legal Opinion
Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Fox
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1936No. 663PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This appeal presents the question of the validity of an ad valorem property tax laid by West Virginia upon accounts receivable and bank deposits of appellant, Wheeling Steel Corporation, organized under the laws of Delaware.
The tax statutes 1 were assailed upon the ground that, as applied, they violated the due process and. equal pro tection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.. The proceeding was a statutory one, instituted by appellant in the Circuit Court of Ohio County, West Virginia, to review a county assessment which was made as of January 1,…
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