MacHine Co. v. Gage
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The HoAve Machine Company is a corporation of the State of Connecticut. It manufactured sewing-machines at Bridgeport, in that State, and had an agency at Nashville, in the State of Tennessee. From the latter place, an agent was sent into Sumner County to sell machines there. A tax Avas demanded from him for a pedler’s license to make such sales. He denied the validity of the law under which the tax was claimed, but, according to a law of the State, paid the amount demanded by the defendant, as clerk of the county court. The company, who brought this suit to recover it back, Avas defeated in…
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