Note 639 — ARTICLE I (continued 3)

216 U.S. 1 (1910). Cf. Osborne v. Florida, 164 U.S. 650 (1897), involving an express business; in Pullman Company v. Adams, 189 U.S. 420 (1903); and in Allen v. Pullman's Palace Car Co., 191 U.S. 171 (1903). Here State taxes levied on the local business of companies engaged also in interstate commerce were sustained "on the assumption" that the companies in question were free to abandon their local business.