Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in action initiated by individual corporation, that state has no jurisdiction to levy tax on property owned by private corporation located on federal military base, which the federal government acquired by donation from the state
• “A contractual requirement ... standing alone, cannot be read as manifesting a purpose of the Government to abandon exclusive jurisdiction” over a federal enclave.
• “It is the established rule that ... refusal to accept may be proved by evidence.”
• \It is the established rule that . . . refusal to accept may be proved by evidence.\
• cession of jurisdiction will not revert to the state merely because some parts of a parcel are no longer used in the manner the state intended
• “It is the established rule that . . . refusal to accept may be proved by evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).