Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE. .UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. * The case is stated in the opinion. The license tax while, in terms, restricted to business done within the State, is, in fact, a tax upon the company’s interstate business.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE. .UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. * The case is stated in the opinion. The license tax while, in terms, restricted to business done within the State, is, in fact, a tax upon the company’s interstate business. This becomes so because.the intrastate business at Richmond is so small, that the net receipts therefrom are insufficient to pay the tax, and the payment if compelled, must come from the other business of the company, narhely, its interstate business, since the laws of Virginia require it to accept such intrastate business. This…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clarke
The appellant, the Telegraph Company, in its bill filed in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sought to enjoin the City of Richmond and its officers from collecting an annual license tax of $300 imposed upon the company by ordinance “for the privilege of doing business within the City of Richmond, but not including any business done to or from points without the State, and not including any business done for the Government of the United States, its officers or agents,” and also from attempting to collect an annual fee of $2, imposed by another…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Crutcher v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kansas Ex Rel. ColemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Emert v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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