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Title: Sonneborn Brothers v. Cureton
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 11, 1923
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 67 KB

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This is an appeal from a decree of a United States District Court under ? 238, Judicial Code, in a case in which a law of Texas is claimed to be in contravention of the Constitution of the United States. The law in question is Art. 7377 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, approved May 16, 1907, Acts of 1907, p. 479. It provides that every individual, firm or corporation, foreign or domestic, engaging as a wholesale dealer in coal oil or other oils refined from petroleum, shall make a quarterly report to the State Comptroller, showing the gross amount collected and uncollected from any and all sales made within the State during the quarter next preceding, and that an occupation tax shall be paid by such dealer equal to two per cent. of the gross amount of such sales collected or uncollected.