Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. City of Fremont
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO JTHE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The City of Fremont is a city of Nebraska of the first class, having more than 5,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitant^. By an ordinance duly enacted in 1903 and reenacted in 1907, there was levied a license tax upon businesses .and occupations within the city including telegraph offices. Upon these offices it levied a tax of $60.00 per year on the business and occupation of sending messages from the city to any place in the State, and receiving, messages transmitted from any . place in the State to the city, except messages received from or transmitted to any department, agency or agent of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. City of RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
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- Davis v. BARR, STATE TAX COMM.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1963
- People Ex Rel. Bass, Ratcliff & Getton, Ltd. v. State Tax CommissionNew York Court of Appeals · 1921
- State v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1935
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