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Quotation from Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. by Supreme Court of the United States
“Whence the 'century of error' is evolved, unless the cases relied on decided that the word 'direct' was not to be considered in its economic sense, does not appear from the argument.”
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Dissent of Justice White (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute))
Justice White answers the majority's willingness to overturn what it called a century of error in the reading of direct taxes.
Citation: "Whence the 'century of error' is evolved, unless the cases relied on decided that the word 'direct' was not to be considered in its economic sense, does not appear from the argument." — Supreme Court of the United States, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Dissent of Justice White (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute)). (id pollock-v-farmers-loan-and-trust-q5)
Portrait: Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
