NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC. v. COM'R OF REVENUE

No. 46410.

247 N.W.2d 33 (1976)

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Respondent, v. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE, Relator.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, C. Blaine Harstad and John R. Stoller, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Minneapolis, for relator.

Johnson & Eastlund, George R. Johnson and Ralph W. Peterson, and James A. Abbott, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before OTIS, TODD, YETKA, and MARSDEN, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


TODD, Justice.

The commissioner of revenue of the State of Minnesota (State) denied refunds to Northwest Airlines, Inc., (NWA) for state aviation fuel taxes paid by NWA on certain bonded aviation fuel stored and withdrawn from storage within Minnesota. The flights involved either originated in the United States and made intermediate domestic stops en route to an ultimate destination in a foreign country, or originated in a foreign country and made intermediate domestic...

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