SILAS MASON CO. ET AL.
v.
TAX COMMISSION OF WASHINGTON ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 27, 1937.
Reargued October 12, 13, 1937.
Decided December 6, 1937.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. B.H. Kizer for appellants in No. 7, on the original argument and the reargument. Messrs. John W. Davis, J. Arthur Leve, and E.D. Weller were with him on the brief.
Messrs. E.D. Weller and B.H. Kizer for appellant in No. 8, on the original argument.
Mr. John W. Davis for appellant in No. 8, on the reargument. Messrs. B.H. Kizer, J. Arthur Leve, and E.D. Weller were with him on the brief.
Messrs. E.W. Schwellenbach and E.P. Donnelly for appellees in No. 8, on the original argument and the reargument.
Solicitor General Reed, with whom Attorney General Cummings, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, Arnold Raum, and Francis A. LeSourd were on the brief, for the United States as amicus curiae in Nos. 7 and 8, by special leave of Court, on the reargument.
By leave of Court, briefs of amici curiae were filed by Mr. W.G. Graves, on behalf of Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co., in support of appellant in No. 8; and by Messrs. E.P. Donnelly and E.W. Schwellenbach, on behalf of Grant County, Oreg., in support of appellees in No. 8.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.
These suits were brought to restrain the enforcement of the Occupation Tax Act of the State of Washington (Laws of 1933, c. 191, p. 869; Spec. Sess., 1933, c. 57, p. 1571) as applied to the gross income received by appellants under contracts with the United States for work performed in connection with the building of the Grand Coulee Dam
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