People ex rel. Jointa Lime Co. v. Sohmer — 220 N.Y. 582

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The People of the State of New York ex rel. Jointa Lime Company, Appellant, v. William Sohmer, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent.

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People ex rel. Jointa Lime Co. v. Sohmer, 161 App. Div. 905 , affirmed.

(Argued January 10, 1917;

decided January 30, 1917.)

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 9, 1914, which confirmed on certiorari a determination of the state comptroller assessing a franchise tax upon the relator for the year ending October 31, 1912. The relator claims that this tax was erroneous (1) because the relator is a manufacturing corporation; (2) if not a manufacturing corporation then a mining corporation; and (3) that the dividends declared were not a distribution of net earnings but a distribution of capital.

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Henry W. Williams for appellant.

Egburt E. Woodbury, Attorney-General (Edmund H. Lewis of counsel), for respondent.

Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Hogan, Cardozo and Pound, JJ.