Mississippi Supreme Court, 1953

Coleman v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.

Coleman v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided March 2, 1953 · Arrington, Ethridge, Hall, Holmes, Kyle, Lee, Lotterhos, McGehee, Roberds
218 Miss. 325; 22 Adv. S. 37; 63 So. 2d 90; 1953 Miss. LEXIS 545

Coleman v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.

Opinion of the Court

ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR

Hall, J.

Appellees own both interstate and intrastate pipe lines in Mississippi. They do not question the right of the State to impose a privilege tax on their intrastate lines, and the question here presented is the right of the State to collect a privilege tax on the interstate pipe line operations. Except as to the length of the lines and amount of tax involved, these cases are identical with and are controlled by the opinion this day delivered in the case of J. P. Coleman, Attorney General v. Trunk-line Gas Company, No. 38,755, and for the reasons therein given the Suggestion of Error is sustained, the former opinions herein are withdrawn and the causes affirmed.

Suggestion of Error sustained, former opinions withdrawn and causes affirmed.

McGehee, G. Jand Roberds, Holmes and Lotterhos, JJ., concur.

Dissenting Opinion

Ethridge, J.,

dissenting.

*326I respectfully dissent from the views of the majority opinion in these cases. My views are expressed in the original opinions thereon, now withdrawn, and printed in 9 Adv. S. 31, 61 So. 2d, pages 290, 293, 294, and in the dissenting opinion on suggestion of error in the companion case of J. P. Coleman, Attorney General v. Trunkline Gas Company, No. 38755.

Lee, Kyle and Arrington, JJ.,.concur in this dissent.

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