COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 2, Civ. A. No. 58.

37 F.Supp. 794 (1941)

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO. v. UNITED STATES (two cases).

District Court, D. Delaware.

March 20, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Haight, Albert C. Wall, and Edward J. O'Mara (of Wall, Haight, Carey & Hartpence), all of Jersey City, N. J., and E. Ennalls Berl (of Southerland, Berl, Potter & Leahy), of Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Stewart Lynch, U. S. Atty., of Wilmington, Del., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Andrew D. Sharpe and Thomas G. Carney, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for defendant.


NIELDS, District Judge.

These suits are for the recovery of internal revenue taxes alleged to have been illegally assessed and collected, together with interest. The suits are based on Sec. 24, Par. 20 of the Judicial Code, as amended. 28 U.S.C.A. § 41 (20).

The subject of the tax is the processing or use of cocoanut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil and sunflower seed oil, hereinafter referred to as "oils". Cocoanut oil is made from products grown in the...

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