De Witt v. Skinner
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado; Robert E. Lewis, Judge. Action by Herbert M. De Witt against Mark A. Skinner, as Collector of Internal Revenue. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
De Witt sued the collector of internal revenue to recover taxes, penalties and interest assessed against him as a manufacturer of adulterated butter and against his product, and paid under protest after an unsuccessful application to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for their abatement. A trial to a’jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant, and De Witt, the plaintiff, prosecuted this writ of error.
The act of Congress applicable to the case provides;
“That ‘adulterated butter’ is hereby defined to mean a grade of butter produced by mixing, reworking,…
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