Supreme Court of the United States May 16, 1927, 815 (Hope Natural Gas Co. v. Hall, State Tax Commissioner)

Mr. Justice McReynolds

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This writ brings up a decree by the Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia, which construed § 2-a, c. 1, Acts of the Legislature, Extraordinary Session 1925,

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and sus

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tained it against objections based upon § 8, Art. I, Federal Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment.