FIDELITY TITLE & TRUST CO. v. U.S.

No. 208.

259 U.S. 304 (1922)

FIDELITY TITLE & TRUST COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Sutherland, with whom Mr. Simon Lyon and Mr. R.B.H. Lyon were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Lovett, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Carl A. Mapes and Mr. B.H. Littleton were on the briefs, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought in the Court of Claims by the Fidelity Title & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, in July, 1918, to recover the sum of $10,028.94 assessed upon its whole capital and undivided profits and paid as bankers' special taxes under § 2 of the Spanish War Revenue Act. That court entered judgment for the defendant; and the case is here on appeal. Appellant contends that nothing was payable as...

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