Case: CLAY PRODUCTS v. THE UNITED STATES
Abbreviation: Clay Products v. United States
Decision Date: 1931-10-20
Docket Number: No. K-444
Citation: 72 Ct. Cl. 670
Volume: 72
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: CLAY PRODUCTS v. THE UNITED STATES
Judges: 
Pages: 670–672

Head Matter:
CLAY PRODUCTS v. THE UNITED STATES
[No. K-444.
Decided October 20, 1931]
Mr. Frank L. Hatch for the plaintiff.
Mr. George H. Foster, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney Generad Charles B. Rugg, for the defendant.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM BT THE COURT
Plaintiff bases its right to recover the tax levied and collected at the rate of 2 cents per share upon the issuance of its no par value common stock upon the ground that the tax is confiscatory in that it is levied without regard to the actual value of the stock upon the issuance of which the tax is collected.
The failure of Congress to measure the tax by the actual value of the shares of stock issued affords no basis for the court to declare the tax unconstitutional. The fact that a particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation, or a class of corporations, is not, of itself, a sufficient reason for a tax to be declared unconstitutional. Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 8 Wall. 533. Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U. S. 107, 166. The petition is dismissed. It is so ordered.