Rosenberger v. Pacific Express Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution of the statute of the State of Texas imposing licenses on places of business of Express Companies where intoxicating liquors are delivered C. O. D., are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
On the taking effect in Texas on the twelfth day of February, 1907, of a law imposing a state license tax of $5,000 annually on each place of business or agency of every express company where intoxicating liquors were delivered and the price collected on C. O. D. shipments, and by which law one-half of the amount of the state license was in addition authorized to be imposed by every county or municipality, the Express Company, the defendant in error, discontinued at all its agencies in Texas all such business. As a result the Company sent back to Kansas City, Missouri, the packages of…
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