United Mercury Mines Co. v. Pfost

This action involves the constitutionality of chapter 65 of the Session Laws of the First Extraordinary Session of 1935 (1935 Extra. Sess., p. 182). On application of the plaintiffs (respondents here), the trial court ordered an injunction against appellants, the commissioner of law enforcement and the attorney general, enjoining and restraining them from proceeding in any manner or form to enforce or execute the provisions of the said act, popularly known as the “Mine Tax Law.” Plaintiffs in their complaint set up a large number of objections to the act and urged the same as grounds…