Pitney v. Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the constitutionality, under the commerce clause of the-Federal Constitution and . the due process and equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment thereto, of the trading stamp license tax laws of the State of Washington, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the constitutionality, under the commerce clause of the-Federal Constitution and . the due process and equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment thereto, of the trading stamp license tax laws of the State of Washington, are stated in the opinion. The Washington statute under which the. plaintiff in error has been convicted, violates the Fourteenth Amendment, in that, it deprives him of his liberty and property without due process of law. The act cannot be sustained ás a revenue measure, its purpose…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
A companion case with Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis, ante, p. 342, and Tanner v. Little, ante, p. 369. It was argued and submitted with those cases and involves the same general questions and the validity of the statute passed upon in the latter case.
A criminal information was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King charging that the United Cigar Stores Company, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, doing business in the State of Washington, owned and conducted a certain store and place of business in the City of Seattle and had not then oí theretofore obtained a…
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