Pullman Co. v. Adams, 189 U.S. 420 (1903)
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Pullman Co. v. Adams, 189 U.S. 420 (1903)
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Pullman Company v. Adams No. 138 Argued and submitted December 19, 1902 Decided March 2, 1903 189 U.S. 420
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
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By sections 3317, 3387 of the Mississippi Code of 1892, a tax is imposed
on each sleeping and palace car company carrying passengers from one point to another within the state, one hundred dollars, and twenty-five cents per mile for each mile of railroad track [in the state] over which the company runs its cars.
Section 196 of the state constitution declares sleeping car companies to be common carriers. On the assumption that such companies would be held free to abandon the business taxed if they see fit, the tax is not void as an interference with commerce between the states. Crutcher v. Kentucky, 141 U.S. 47, distinguished; Osborne v. Florida, 164 U.S. 860, followed.
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