Stanton v. Baltic Mining Company

Stanton v. Baltic Mining Company by Edward Douglass White Syllabus

related portals: Supreme Court of the United States. Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court upheld the validity of a tax statute called the Revenue Act of 1913, also known as the Tariff Act, Ch. 16, 38 Stat. 166 (Oct. 3, 1913), enacted pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 1 of, and the Sixteenth Amendment to, the United States Constitution, imposing a federal income tax. — Excerpted from Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

United States Supreme Court

240 U.S. 103

STANTON  v.  BALTIC MINING COMPANY

 Argued: October 14 and 15, 1915. --- Decided: February 21, 1916

Mr. Charles A. Snow for appellant.

No appearance for appellees.

Mr. John R. Van Derlip filed a brief as amicus curioe.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 104-106 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

Notes

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