Legal Opinion
Hillside Transit Co. v. Larson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided February 2, 1954PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCuRRiE, J.
The gravamen of the charge of unconstitutionality leveled against secs. 194.47 to 194.49, Stats. 1951, subjecting the plaintiff motor carriers to the payment of ton-mile taxes is that such statutes violate the equal-protection-of-the-law clauses of the Wisconsin constitution and the Fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution.
The constitutionality of the ton-mile tax as enacted by ch. 454, Laws of 1931, was unsuccessfully challenged before this court in State ex rel. Wisconsin Truck Owners Asso. v. Public Service Comm. (1932), 207 Wis. 664, 242 N. W. 668, on the ground that there…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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