Legal Opinion
Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 4, 1944No. 62PublishedCited by 738 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
This is a suit brought in a United States district court to enjoin the enforcement of a State tax and for a declaratory judgment.
The Connecticut Corporation Business Tax Act of 1935, as amended, imposed on every corporation, not otherwise specially taxed, carrying on or having the right to carry on business within the State “a tax or excise upon its franchise for the privilege of carrying on or doing business within the state . . .” Conn. Gen. Stat. Cum. Supp. 1935, § 418c, as amended by Conn. Gen. Stat. Supp. 1939, § 354e. Petitioner, a Missouri corporation with its principal place of…
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