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MICHAEL TODD CO. v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 25987.

57 Cal.2d 684 (1962)

371 P.2d 340

21 Cal. Rptr. 604

THE MICHAEL TODD COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 17, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shearer & Fields, Jacob Shearer, Bertram Fields and Bernard Shearer for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Loeb & Loeb, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Hilbert P. Zarky as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Alfred Charles De Flon, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Dan Kaufmann, Assistant Attorney General, and Walter J. Wiesner, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

SCHAUER, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment for defendants in an action to recover ad valorem personal property taxes for the year 1957, levied upon an assessment of certain film negatives of the copyrighted motion picture entitled "Around The World In Eighty Days."

This case appears to be the first in which any taxpayer has questioned the validity of the Los Angeles County Assessor's method of assessing motion picture negatives — a method which,...

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