Supreme Court of the United States April 6, 1908, 160 (Thompson v. Kentucky)

Mr. Justice McKenna,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Court of Appeals of Kentucky opened its opinion in this case by saying that the whole question presented was whether the statute of the State, “imposing a tax on distilled spirits in bonded warehouses,” violated the Federal Constitution, and particularly the Fourteenth Amendment thereof.