HEARST PUBLICATIONS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 25228-25231.

70 F.Supp. 666 (1946)

HEARST PUBLICATIONS, Inc., v. UNITED STATES. CHRONICLE PUB. CO. v. UNITED STATES (four cases).

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

December 31, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fink & Keyston, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., and William E. Licking, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., Douglas W. McGregor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew D. Sharpe and Arthur L. Jacobs, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for defendant.

S. A. Ladar, of San Francisco, Cal., for Newspaper & Periodical Vendors' and Distributors' Union No. 468, amicus curiæ.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

By these four actions, consolidated for trial, plaintiff newspaper publishers seek refund of insurance contributions and unemployment taxes collected from them, for taxable periods within the years 1937-1940, upon the compensation received by vendors of their publications on the streets of the City of San Francisco who, it is claimed by plaintiffs, were not their employees. The single issue to be here determined is the status of these vendors...

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