Ewing v. City of Leavenworth
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of a license tax on express companies, are stated in the opinion. An express company may not be compelled to buy a city license before it may handle in that city packages forwarded by it therefrom to other places in the same State, or from other places in that State thereto, which packages are necessarily partly carried through another State.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of a license tax on express companies, are stated in the opinion. An express company may not be compelled to buy a city license before it may handle in that city packages forwarded by it therefrom to other places in the same State, or from other places in that State thereto, which packages are necessarily partly carried through another State. Such business is interstate. transportation, and the city may not prohibit or burden the transaction of such business. The transportation of éxpress…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Plaintiff in error was the agent of the United States Express Company at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was convicted of violating an ordinance of the city imposing a tax on the business of express companies. The conviction was affirmed in 80 Kansas, 58, and the case is brought here.
Under the ordinance a tax was imposed on the business and occupation of express companies as follows:
“The sum of fifty dollars per year on the business and occupation of Express Company, corporation, or Agency, in receiving packages in this city from persons in the city and transmitting the same by' express from this…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Maine v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
- United States Express Co. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Hanley v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Lehigh Valley Railroad v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. LeeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1917
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