Reading Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: On the 25th of August, 1864, the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an act entitled “An act to provide additional revenue for the use of the Commonwealth.”
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Error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: On the 25th of August, 1864, the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an act entitled “An act to provide additional revenue for the use of the Commonwealth.” It enacted— “Section 1. That the president, treasurer, cashier, or other financial officer, of every railroad company, steamboat company, canal company, and slaekwater navigation company, and all other companies now or hereafter doing business within this State, and upon whose works freight may be transported, whether by such company or by individuals, and whether such…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
We are called upon, in this case, to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, affirming the validity of a statute of the State, which the plaintiffs in error allege, to be repugnant to the Federal Constitution.
The case presents the question whether the statute in question, — so far as it imposes a tax upon freight taken up within the State and carried out of it, or taken up outside, the State and delivered within it, or, in different words, upon all freight other than that taken up and delivered within the State, — is not repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the…
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