Case ID: del-ch_22/html/0405-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Rodney, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of New York, Claimant Below, Appellant, vs. Henry C. Mahaffy, Jr., and Ralph J. Ritchie, Receivers of United American Utilities, Inc., Exceptants Below, Appellees.
    
      Supreme Court, On Appeal,
    
    
      Nov. 10, 1936.
    Layton, C. J., and Harrington, Richards, Rodney and Speakman, JJ., sitting.
    
      C. Edward Duffy and Edward J. Grogan, of New York City, for appellants.
    
      Clarence A. Southerland, of the firm of Ward and Gray, and Irwin L. Tappen, of New York, for appellees.
   Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

We are in entire accord with the opinion of the Chancellor, reported as Elsner v. United American Utilities, Inc., 21 Del. Ch. 73, 180 A. 589.

It would serve no useful purpose to here restate, in varying language, the reasoning or conclusion of the Chancellor. He considered every argument of the present appellant and cites every pertinent case.

The Chancellor held that, according to the decisions of the highest court of New York, the United American Utilities, Inc., was not “carrying on business” or “doing business” in the State of New York, and therefore no New York license fees or franchise taxes were payable. With this opinion we agree and on its reasoning and on the cases cited therein the decree is affirmed.