PACIFIC TEL. CO. v. TAX COMM'N.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Otto B. Rupp, with whom Messrs. Maurice McMicken, Alfred J. Schweppe, and Alfred Sutro were on the brief, for Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., appellant in No. 544.

Mr. Lorenzo B. da Ponte, with whom Mr. Dennis F. Lyons was on the brief, for Northern Pacific Ry. Co., appellant in No. 529.

Mr. Thomas Balmer, with whom Messrs. F.G. Dorety and Edwin C. Matthias were on the brief, for Great Northern Ry. Co., appellant in No. 573.

Mr. R.G. Sharpe, Assistant Attorney General of Washington, and Mr. Walter L. Baumgartner, with whom Mr. G.W. Hamilton, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees.

By leave of Court, Messrs. A.C. Van Soelen and Walter L. Baumgartner filed a brief on behalf of the City of Seattle, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance of the judgment below.