MOTE v. OLSEN


648 S.W.2d 942 (1983)

Frederick A. MOTE and Florence B. Mote, Appellees, v. Martha B. OLSEN Commissioner of Revenue, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Walker, Asst. Atty. Gen., William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Reporter, Nashville, for appellant.

John C. Mooney, Jan Tore Hall and Martin L. Pierce, Stophel, Caldwell & Heggie, P.C., Chattanooga, for appellees.


OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This appeal concerns a tax assessment by the Commissioner of Revenue under T.C.A. § 67-2602, which was paid under protest. The statute levies a six percent income tax known as the Hall Income Tax, on "incomes derived by way of dividends from stocks or by way of interest on bonds." The income upon which the tax was assessed was paid to the plaintiffs as trustors under an agreement by which the Georgia Conference Association of...

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