GULF STATES STEEL CO. v. U.S.

No. 24.

287 U.S. 32 (1932)

GULF STATES STEEL CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 7, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Drye, Jr., with whom Messrs. John M. Perry and Augustus Benners were on the brief, for petitioners. Mr. James P. McGovern also appeared for petitioners.

Mr. Whitney North Seymour, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, Miss Helen R. Carloss, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. John E. Hughes, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

In the District Court for Alabama — August 25, 1930 — the United States sued the Gulf States Steel Company, principal, and National Surety Company, surety, — petitioners here — upon a bond dated September 9, 1925, whereby they agreed to pay Snead, Collector of Internal Revenue, so much of the additional income and profits taxes for 1917 assessed by him against the principal in 1921...

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