Opinion

American Bridge Co. v. Smith

  • 352 Mo. 616
  • 179 S.W.2d 12
  • 157 A.L.R. 798
  • 1944 Mo. LEXIS 491
Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Filed
Feb 7, 1944
Status
Published
On the bench
Bradley, Dalton, Van Osdol
Cited by
26 cases

"[T]he use tax, therefore, was constitutionally infirm, for, ‘[w]here the use tax exceeds the sales tax, the discrepancy imposes a discriminatory burden on interstate commerce’ ”

How later courts described this case

  • "[T]he use tax, therefore, was constitutionally infirm, for, ‘[w]here the use tax exceeds the sales tax, the discrepancy imposes a discriminatory burden on interstate commerce’ ”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

The foregoing opinion by VAN OSDOL, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court. All the judges concur. *Page 627

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