CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. CLINTON MERCHANDISING CORP.

Docket No. L.A. 26255.

58 Cal.2d 675 (1962)

375 P.2d 851

25 Cal. Rptr. 859

CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CLINTON MERCHANDISING CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shearer & Fields, Bertram Fields and Bernard Shearer for Defendant and Appellant.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones and James A. Doherty, Assistant City Attorneys, and Robert C. Summers, Deputy City Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

This case involves the narrow question of whether the City of Los Angeles in assessing defendant's license taxes properly interpreted the term "gross receipts" to cover all of the amounts defendant handled rather than the gross amount it received for the services it rendered. The case presents the further question of whether the city properly assessed defendant as a "person ... selling ... goods ... at wholesale...

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