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PIERCE v. UNITED STATES (NO. 2)

Nos. 65, 624.

232 U.S. 292 (1914)

PIERCE v. UNITED STATES (NO. 2). UNITED STATES v. PIERCE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William D. Guthrie for the yacht owner in this and other cases argued simultaneously herewith.1

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Adkins, with whom Mr. Karl W. Kirchwey was on the brief, for the United States.2

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases concern the right to recover a tax on the yacht Yacona, becoming due on the first of September, 1910. The complaint filed by the United States in No. 65 was in substance like that filed in the previous cases and the answer in effect set up the same defenses, especially the defense relating to the non-use of the yacht. The case, by stipulation, was submitted to the court without a jury, a finding...

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