Boeing Airplane Co. v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The appeal in this case is from a declaratory judgment of the district court and involves the question whether that court had jurisdiction to determine the possible liability of the Boeing Airplane Company for the payment of taxes upon real property owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and leased by the airplane company.

The company brought the action for the purpose of having the court declare that real property owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, hereinafter called RFQ, is property exclusively owned by the United…