Legal Opinion
Lawrence v. Shaw
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1937No. 549PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
The controversy in this case relates to the liability to local taxation of certain bank deposits made by the petitioner as guardian of an incompetent veteran of the World War. Immunity was claimed under the federal statutes. World War Veterans Act, 1924, § 22, 1 43 Stat. 606, 613, 38 U. S. C. 454; Act of August 12, 1935, §§ 3 and 5, 2 49 Stat. 607, 609. The Supreme Court of North Carolina denied the immunity (210 N. C. 352; 186 S. E. 504) and this Court granted a writ of certiorari, January 4, 1937.
The controversy' was submitted to the state court upon an agreed case. It appeared that…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Trotter v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Lawrence v. . Comrs. of HertfordSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1936
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- Sylvia H. Thompson v. Clark M. Clifford, as Secretary of DefenseCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
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