Atkinson v. State Tax Commission

The facts in this ..case are very similar to those in Winston Bros. Company et al. v. State Tax Commission of Oregon et al. on this day decided, and the law of that case is decisive of this."

In this case, as in the former one, the state seeks to impose a tax upon the profits realized by the plaintiffs in the performance .of a contract entered into by them with the War Department. In the other case, the work was done in the reconstruction of a jetty, while in this case the work was done in the construction of a dam, locks and ship canal in the Columbia river at Bonneville, Oregon.

The…