Hotels Statler Co., Inc. v. District of Columbia

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These are three petitions to review decisions of the Board of Tax Appeals for the District of Columbia. They concern sales taxes and use taxes under a local statute. 1

The petitioner operates a hotel in the District of Columbia. It furnishes transient guests with rooms and meals. It also supplies glassware, chinaware, silverware, table linen, room service tables, upholstery leather, stationery, pen points, toothpicks, soap, toilet tissue, bed linen, towels, glass tumblers, clothes hangers, dresser trays, ashtrays, lamps ,and lamp shades, light ■bulbs, window draperies,…