Legal Opinion
UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. v. PFOST, COMMISSIONER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, Et Al.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 16, 1932No. 722PublishedCited by 224 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
The Utah Power & Light Company is a Maine corporation doing business in the states of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, under the laws of those states. The corporation is a public utility engaged in generating, transmitting and distributing electric power and energy for barter, sale and exchange to consumers in each of these three states and in interstate commerce among them. The present suit was brought to enjoin the enforcement of an act of the Idaho legislature, levying a license tax on the manufacture, generation or production, within the state, for barter, sale or exchange, of electricity and…
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- Dorchy v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by224 opinions
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