Legal Opinion
State v. Paramount-Gulf Theatres, Inc.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided January 9, 1956No. 39870PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcGehee, C. J.
In this case the State of Mississippi by its Attorney General appeals from a final decree of the chancery court rendered in favor of the appellee, Paramount-Gulf Theatres, Inc., and against the State of Mississippi for the sum of $27,886.29, alleged to have been illegally collected from the appellee as a “chain picture show tax” under Chapter 418, Laws of 1952, Section 9079, Code of 1942, as Recompiled in Vol. 7 of the said Code, and which statute was held by the trial court to he unconstitutional as being in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal *410C…
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