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DRAVO CONTRACTING CO. v. JAMES

No. 4654.

114 F.2d 242 (1940)

DRAVO CONTRACTING CO. v. JAMES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

September 6, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Blair, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and W. Chapman Revercomb, of Charleston, W. Va. (William S. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and W. Elliott Nefflen, of Charleston, W. Va., on the brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

Clarence W. Meadows, Atty. Gen. of West Virginia (W. Holt Wooddell, Asst. Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, on the brief), for appellee and cross-appellant.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is the second appeal in a suit instituted to enjoin the collection of taxes and penalties in the sum of $135,761.51 assessed by the Tax Commissioner of West Virginia against the Dravo Contracting Company. The case was first heard before a statutory court of three judges, and the taxes were held void on the ground that they burdened operations of the United States Government. Dravo Contracting Co. v. Fox, D.C., 16 F.Supp...

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