BURNET v. SANFORD & BROOKS CO.

No. 31.

282 U.S. 359 (1931)

BURNET, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. SANFORD & BROOKS COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Andrew D. Sharpe, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, Erwin N. Griswold, and Clarence M. Charest, General Counsel Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Prew Savoy, Special Attorney, were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Harry N. Baetjer for respondent.

Messrs. Charles D. Hamel, Richard S. Doyle, and Brainard Avery, by special leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case certiorari was granted, 281 U.S. 707, to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 35 F.2d 312, reversing an order of the Board of Tax Appeals, 11 B.T.A. 452, which had sustained the action of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in making a deficiency assessment against respondent for income and profits...

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