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CINCINNATI SOAP CO. v. U.S.

No. 659.

301 U.S. 308 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 764

81 L.Ed. 1122

CINCINNATI SOAP CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 3, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred Bettman, with whom Mr. James L. Magrish was on the brief, for Cincinnati Soap Co., petitioner in No. 659.

Mr. Frederick H. Wood, with whom Messrs. Alfred C. Munger, William Stanley, and Thomas T. Cooke were on the brief, for Haskin Brothers & Co., Inc., petitioner in No. 687.

Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with whom Solicitor General Reed, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. Sewall Key, F.A. Le Sourd, and Charles A. Horsky were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Section 602 1/2 of the Revenue Act of 1934, c. 277, 48 Stat. 680, 763, imposes a tax of 3 cents per pound upon the first domestic processing of coconut oil, and provides that all such taxes collected with respect to coconut oil wholly of Philippine production, etc., "shall be held as a separate fund and paid to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands, but if at any time the Philippine Government provides by...

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