Brooklyn Ash Removal Co. v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

Plaintiff was incorporated for the purpose, as stated in its certificate of incorporation, of carrying oil a general contracting business in all its branches. During its entire corporate existence, it has beeu engaged exclusively in the reception, transportation, and final disposition of garbage, ashes, street sweepings, and rubbish in the borough of Brooklyn under successive contracts with the city of New York, the contract involved in this suit being a five-year contract which commenced April 1, 1928, and terminated March 31, 1933. The only income to plaintiff during 1929…