DEER PARK ETC. v. STEVENS COUNTY

No. 33201.

46 Wn.2d 852 (1955)

286 P.2d 98

DEER PARK PINE INDUSTRY, INC., et al., Appellants, v. STEVENS COUNTY et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

July 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witherspoon, Witherspoon & Kelley, for appellants.

The Attorney General, Frank P. Hayes and Quinby R. Bingham, Assistants, and Sidney R. Buckley, for respondents.

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Beeks, Graham, Green, Howe & Dunn, Monheimer, Schermer & Mifflin, Montgomery, Montgomery & Purdue, Skeel, McKelvy, Henke, Evenson & Uhlmann, and Wright, Innis, Simon & Todd, amici curiae.


WEAVER, J.

Is the distribution of real property to stockholders, by the statutory-liquidating trustee of a corporation in dissolution, subject to the one per cent tax on real-estate sales, as authorized by RCW 28.45 (Laws of 1951, 1st Ex. Ses. chapter 11, p. 18; Laws of 1951, 2d Ex. Ses., chapter 19, p. 74; Laws of 1953, chapter 94, p. 183) and as implemented by Stevens county ordinance No. 56-1953, enacted by the board of county commissioners on April 27, 1953?<...

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