United Fuel Gas Co. v. Hallahan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP APPEALS OP THE STATE OP WEST VIRGINIA. Error to a judgment sustaining a tax in a suit by the plaintiff in error to restrain its enforcement. See the preceding case, ante, 265. The final decree is reviewable by writ of error. Jud. Code, § 237; Merchants’ National Bank v. Richmond, 256 U. S. 635. Natural gas is an article of commerce and its transportation from one State to another is interstate commerce.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP APPEALS OP THE STATE OP WEST VIRGINIA. Error to a judgment sustaining a tax in a suit by the plaintiff in error to restrain its enforcement. See the preceding case, ante, 265. The final decree is reviewable by writ of error. Jud. Code, § 237; Merchants’ National Bank v. Richmond, 256 U. S. 635. Natural gas is an article of commerce and its transportation from one State to another is interstate commerce. Such transportation is none the less interstate commerce because accomplished by two or more connecting carriers, one or more of which operates within the limits…
1Opinion of the Court
Mrí'Justice Holmés
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a bill in equity that seeks to restrain the- application to the plaintiff of the same statute that has been considered,in Eureka Pipe Line Co. v. Hallanan, just decided, ante, 265. Acts of Extraordinary Session, 1919, c. 5. The statute taxes the transportation of natural gas as well as of oil by pipe lines and the plaintiff Gas Company makes the same objection that was made by the Oil Company in the former case to the constitutionality of the act, as well as others that it will not be necessary to discuss. The two cases were heard…
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