Litigants: | Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson |
Italic Title: | force |
Arguedate: | January 14 |
Argueyear: | 1938 |
Decidedate: | January 31 |
Decideyear: | 1938 |
Fullname: | Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Charles G. Johnson, Treasurer of State of California |
Usvol: | 303 |
Uspage: | 77 |
Parallelcitations: | 58 S.Ct. 436; 82 L. Ed. 673; 1938 U.S. LEXIS 258 |
Majority: | Stone |
Dissent: | Black |
Notparticipating: | Cardozo |
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, 303 U.S. 77 (1938), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States dealt with corporate entities. The case involved whether California could levy a tax on a company licensed to do business in that state for transactions that occurred in a different state.
Justice Stone delivered the opinion of the Court. Justice Hugo Black dissented.