Legal Opinion
Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. North Carolina Ex Rel. Maxwell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 30, 1936No. 610PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Caedozo
The question is whether a statute of North Carolina laying a tax upon the net income of interstate railway companies has been so .applied to the appellant as to violate the prohibitions of the Constitution of the United States.
The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, a Virginia corporation, has lines of railway in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland,”West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. Its lines in North Carolina aré branches,'connecting with the main line at Roanoke, Lynchburg and Abingdon, and running'from .those points of junction to Winston-Salem, Durham and- Elkland. For the years 1927,1928,…
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