WASHBURN v. C. I. R.

No. 16530.

283 F.2d 839 (1960)

Alex H. WASHBURN, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

November 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Chas. Eichenbaum, Leonard L. Scott and W. S. Miller, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

C. Guy Tadlock, Exec. Asst. Tax Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Myron C. Baum and Kenneth E. Levin, Attorneys, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

During the year 1955 the taxpayer, petitioner herein, was employed by the Star Publishing Company, an Arkansas corporation, as its sole salaried officer and publisher and editor of its daily newspaper published at Hope, Arkansas, called the Hope Star. He also owned fifty per cent of the corporation's capital stock. In 1955 the Arkansas Legislature passed an Act which exempted livestock and poultry feeds from the then existing 2% sales tax...

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