Legal Opinion
Broad River Power Co. v. Query
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 6, 1933No. Nos. 390, 391PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
delivered the. opinion of the Court.
These suits were brought to restrain the enforcement of a statute of South Carolina (Act of May 9, 1931, 37 St. at Large, 357) imposing a tax on the production and sale of electric power. The District Court of three judges (28 U. S. C. 380) sustained the tax and the cases come here on appeal from final decrees dismissing the bills of complaint for want of equity. 52 F. (2d) 515; 286 U. S. 525; 60 F. (2d) 528.
The contention, pressed below, that the statute is repugnant to the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution is not presented here. The grounds of…
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