Pacific Telephone Telegraph Co v. Gallagher
| Decision Date | 30 January 1939 |
| Docket Number | No. 213,213 |
| Citation | 306 U.S. 182,83 L.Ed. 595,59 S.Ct. 396 |
| Parties | PACIFIC TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. v. GALLAGHER et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Messrs. Francis N. Marshall and Alfred Sutro, both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 182-186 intentionally omitted] Mr. H. H. Linney, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
This case involves the same questions as Southern Pacific Company v. Gallagher, 306 U.S. 167, 59 S.Ct. 389, 83 L.Ed. —-, decided today. The appellant sought to restrain the State Board of Equalization of the State of California, its members, and the Attorney General of the state from enforcing the Use Tax of 1935, St.Cal.1935, p. 1297. A three-judge court granted an interlocutory injunction. Later, it denied a permanent injunction and dismissed the appellant's bill1 for the reasons stated in Southern Pacific Company v. Corbett, D.C., 23 F.Supp. 193.
The appellant, a California corporation, operates a telephone and telegraph system in interstate and intrastate commerce. The same plant, facilities and organization are devoted to both interstate and intrastate business. In the necessary operation, maintenance and repair of its system, the appellant purchases outside California large amounts of equipment, apparatus, materials and supplies which are shipped to it in interstate commerce at various points within the state. The tangible personal property which the appellees threaten to tax is of two general classes: specific order and stand-by equipment. The first consists of central office switchboards, frames, cable racks, large private branch exchange switchboards, large underground cables, switches, central office cable, wire, protectors and other component parts of telephone and telegraph lines, which are purchased on specific order for installation at a particular place in the system. The second comprises goods bought from time to time for holding as stand-by supplies to meet fluctuating demands and emergencies and to make repairs.
The specific order equipment is shipped to the appellant at the place of use. Its representative receipts for the goods at the dock or breaks the seal of the railroad car, and its employees unload the goods from the dock or car into its trucks. In most instances the trucks are driven directly to the building where the equipment is to be installed; in some, to distributing conters for reloading into other trucks...
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