UNITED STATES v. FELT & TARRANT CO.

No. 116.

283 U.S. 269 (1931)

UNITED STATES v. FELT & TARRANT MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Rugg, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Bradley B. Gilman, and Ralph C. Williamson were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Thomas G. Haight, with whom Messrs. Robert H. Montgomery and J. Marvin Haynes were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This Court granted certiorari, 281 U.S. 719, to review a judgment of the Court of Claims, allowing recovery by respondent of income and excess profits taxes alleged to have been illegally exacted for the year 1917. 69 Ct. Cls. 204; 37 F.2d 977. It is conceded that respondent was entitled to a deduction from gross income for that year on account of exhaustion or obsolescence of...

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