Healy v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

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• “Chief among the considerations to be weighed in the construction of a statute are the objects to be accomplished, the evils to be remedied, and the circumstances under which it was enacted.”
• imposition of tax is a legislative act subject to legislature's control
• imposition of tax is a legislative act subject to legislature’s control

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