HASKINS BROS. & CO. v. MORGENTHAU

No. 6710.

85 F.2d 677 (1936)

HASKINS BROS. & CO. v. MORGENTHAU, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 30, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Stanley and J. E. Burroughs, Jr., both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before MARTIN, Chief justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.


GRONER, Associate Justice.

Appellant, an Iowa corporation, is engaged in the manufacture of soap. Its business is intrastate. In the manufacture of its product it uses large quantities of Philippine coconut oil, and this use constitutes a "first domestic processing" under the terms of section 602½ of the Revenue Act of 1934.1 The act imposes a tax of 3 cents per pound on the first domestic processing of certain vegetable oils, including...

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