Craft v. Schafer

RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is one of a number of actions brought to recover back the taxes and penalties assessed and paid under what are known as the '‘Oleomargarine Acts.” Retail dealers of oleomargarine are required to pay a special tax of $18 per year; but, if the oleomargarine be free from any artificial coloration which causes it to look like butter of any shade of’yellow, the annual tax is only $6. In the present cases it was held, as a matter of fact, that the oleomargarine .sold was artificially colored, and therefore subject to the special tax o,f $48 per year. The internal…