Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company

Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Trust Company Hyde
by Melville Fuller

Syllabus

Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429 (1895), aff'd on reh'g, 158 U.S. 601 (1895), with a ruling of 5–4, was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the unapportioned income taxes on interest, dividends and rents imposed by the Income Tax Act of 1894 were, in effect, direct taxes, and were unconstitutional because they violated the provision that direct taxes be apportioned. The decision was nullified in 1913 by Amendment XVI to the US Constitution. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Trust Company Hyde

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Jos. H. Choate and W. D. Guthrie, for appellants.

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Atty. Gen. Olney and Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for appellees.

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

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