Dozier v. Alabama

Citations

• 218 U.S. 124
• 30 S. Ct. 649
• 54 L. Ed. 965
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 2009

Syllabus

<p>The protection of the commerce clause of, the Federal Constitution extends beyond the strict' lines of. contract, and inseparable incidents of a transaction of interstate commerce-based on contract are also. interstate commerce. '</p> <p>Where, under the contract to purchase a picture, the purchaser has the option to take át a specified price the frame in which the picture.. shall be delivered, and both picture and frame are manufactured in and delivered from another State and remain the property of the-vendor until paid for, the sale of the frame is a part of the original transaction and protected by the commerce clause of the Constitution.</p> <p>The. imposition óf a license tax for soliciting orders for enlargements of. photographs and frames on persons not having a permanent place of business in the State and keeping such articles as stock in trade is a regulation of commerce between the States and void under the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution, both as to the orders ■' for the picture itself and as to an optional right to take, at a púce specified in the contract, the frame in which the picture-is delivered, and so held- as to the license tax imposed under § 17 of the statute of March 7, 1907, of Alabama.</p>