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MILLIKEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 87.

283 U.S. 15 (1931)

MILLIKEN ET AL., EXECUTORS, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. D.A. Embury, with whom Mr. Hugo Kohlmann was on the brief, for petitioners.

Assistant Attorney General Rugg, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Fred K. Dyar, Bradley B. Gilman, and Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case certiorari was granted, 282 U.S. 817, to review a judgment of the Court of Claims denying to petitioners recovery of a tax alleged to have been illegally exacted under the decedents' estates provisions of the Revenue Act of 1918. 38 F.2d 381; Act of February 24, 1919, c. 18, 40 Stat. 1057, 1096, 1097, 1149, 1150.

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