Dozier v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The facts are stated in tne opinion. Congress has sole power to regulate commerce between the SW.es. Art. I, § S, Const.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The facts are stated in tne opinion. Congress has sole power to regulate commerce between the SW.es. Art. I, § S, Const. U. S. Section 17 <5f the Alabama act of March 7, 1907, requiring every person who solicits orders for pictures or frames or sells or disposes of picture frames to pay a license tax in each county is an attempt to interfere with and to regulate commerce and as such is invalid as to an agent of a corporation residing out of the State. Caldwell v. North Carolina, 187 U. S. 622; Brenan v. Titusville, 153 U. S. 289; Robbins v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
Thu plaintiff in error was convicted and sentenced to a fine on a complaint for breach of an Alabama statute of March 7, 1907. By § 17 of that act a license tax was imposed on persons who did not have a permanent place of business in the State and also keep picture frames as a part of their stock in trade, if they solicited orders for the enlargement of photographs or pictures of any character, of for picture frames, whether they made charge for such frames or not, or if they sold of disposed of picture frames. The Chicago Crayon Company, having its only place of business in Chicago and being…
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