Pullman's Palace Car Co. v. Pennsylvania
Citations
- 141 U.S. 18
- 11 S. Ct. 876
- 35 L. Ed. 613
- 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2494
Syllabus
<p>A statute of a State, imposing a tax on the capital stock of all corporations engaged in the transportation of freight or passengers within the State, under which a corporation of another State, engaged in running railroad cars into, through and out of the State, and having at all times a large number of such cars within the State, is taxed by taking as the basis of assessment such proportion of its capital stock as the number of miles of railroad over which its cars are run within thA State bears to the whole number of miles in this and other States over which its cars are run, does not, as applied to such a corporation, violate the clause o'f the Constitution of the United States granting to Congress thé power -to regulate commerce among the several States.</p>
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- upholding taxation of railroad cars apportioned by the amount of mileage incurred with the state by each railroad car under the Commerce Clause
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Judges: Gray, Bradley, Field, Hablan, Brown
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