UNITED STATES v. TILLINGHAST

No. 2775.

69 F.2d 718 (1934)

UNITED STATES v. TILLINGHAST et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 14, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Frederick W. Dewart, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Henry M. Boss, Jr., U. S. Atty., of Providence, R. I., on the brief), for the United States.

Frederick W. Tillinghast and Robert B. Dresser, both of Providence, R. I. (Robert E. Jacobson, Roger T. Clapp, Ronald B. Smith, Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast, Phillips & Wheeler, and Edwards & Angell, all of Providence, R. I., on the brief), for appellees.

Before WILSON, and MORTON, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.


MORTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill in equity brought by the United States against individual defendants to recover excess profits taxes assessed for 1917 against the Crefeld Company, a corporation which was liquidated and all its assets distributed, before the end of 1918, and which was legally dissolved in November, 1923. The defendants were shareholders in the corporation and as such received proportionate parts of the distributed assets. The present suit is...

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