Show texas tax rebate law unconstitutional washington in deciding the cage case of the galveston san antonio hall rail way company vs the state of texas involving taxes on that and other texas roads the su supreme premer court ol 01 the united states held to be ancon the texas law of 0 1905 fix ing the tax rate on railroad railroads equal to 1 per cent on their gross earnings ichen hen they lie wholly within the state and a proportionate bum when they lie partly within the state the ion was delivered by bv justice Ilo II olmes Inies who held that tle tte tl e law Is an elloit to regulate interstate commerce alq an that therefore the tax could not be b collected |