PHINNEY v. TUBOSCOPE COMPANY

No. 17376.

268 F.2d 233 (1959)

Robert L. PHINNEY, Appellant, v. TUBOSCOPE COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Beatty, Melva M. Graney, Lee A. Jackson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., John E. Banks, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

C. W. Wellen, M. S. McCorquodale, Charles W. Hall, Houston, Tex., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

We here deal with problems arising under the Korean Excess Profits Tax Statute, as to which others have said, and we have echoed, that this statute "* * probably represented the most intricate and baffling enactment ever to receive Congressional approval." Burford-Toothaker Tractor Co. v. United States, 5 Cir., 1959, 262 F.2d 891.

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