Commonwealth v. United States Express Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 32, May T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 446, for plaintiff, on appeal from tax settlement. Appeal from tax settlement.
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Appeal, No. 32, May T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 446, for plaintiff, on appeal from tax settlement. Appeal from tax settlement. Before Simonton, P. J. The case was tried without a jury under the act of 1874. The court found the facts as follows : “ 1. The gross receipts of defendant from its express business, transacted wholly within the state of Pennsylvania, during the period included in the settlement appealed from, amounted in the aggregate to $437,657.81. During the same period it paid to several railroad companies for ‘ express…
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Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Sterbett,
An examination of the record in this case has fully convinced us that there is nothing, either in the learned trial judge’s findings of fact or in the legal conclusions drawn therefrom, of which the defendant has any just reason to complain.
The company’s gross receipts from its express business, transacted wholly within the' state, during the period included in the settlement appealed from, appear to have aggregated $487,657.81. During same period, considerable sums were paid by it to railroad companies for transporting its express matter. Some of said…
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