SPOKANE COUNTY v. UNITED STATES

No. 164.

279 U.S. 80 (1929)

COUNTY OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 8, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles W. Greenough, with whom Messrs. A.O. Colburn and S.R. Clegg were on the brief, for petitioners.

Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt, and Messrs. Sewall Key and John Vaughan Groner, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief for the United States.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question of the priority of payment of debts due to the United States over those due to a State or its agencies against the same fund for state taxes, under § 3466 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

In August, 1922, a receiver for the Culton-Moylan-Reilly Auto Company, an insolvent corporation, was appointed by the Superior...

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