State v. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $4,959.-48 alleged to be due the state as part of defendant’s gross earnings tax for the year 1904. The case was tried before Holt, who found for the state in the amount of $1,481.16. From judgment entered pursuant to the findings, both parties appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
This case comes to this court upon appeals by both the plaintiff and the defendant; but the questions involved are so intimately connected that we will dispose of the appeals in one opinion.
The action was brought by the state against the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company to recover the sum of $4,959.48, alleged to be due for taxes which were properly payable under the provisions of the gross earnings law of this state. It was alleged that the defendant was a telephone company, engaged in carrying on a general telephone business, with its principal office and place of business in the…
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