City of Seattle v. Poe

CUSHMAN, District Judge.

The city of Seattle, plaintiff, owns and operates a municipal street ear system. The individual plaintiffs are employees of the city, in the department of publie utilities, street railway division. The suit purports to be brought not only for the plaintiffs, but on behalf of others similarly situated, against the collector of internal revenue, and prays that the defendant Burns Poe, collector, and all persons claiming to act under his authority, and that of the Revenue Act of 1921, 42 Stat. 227, be enjoined from requiring a return or collecting any taxes, exacting any…