Bullard v. Shaw

This was an action brought by an owner and user of tractors and stationary engines, that were not employed in farming, against the then State Auditor, A. S. J. Shaw, for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of chapter 280, Session Laws 1929, permitting the exemption from the gasoline tax of the gasoline used in farmers’ tractors and stationary engines, and the charge 'is made that the State Auditor, unless restrained by the court, would accept the affidavits at their face value, provided for in chapter 280, of purchases for use in farmers’ tractors, and that the said State Auditor had…