AMERICAN GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 42074.

17 F.Supp. 151 (1936)

AMERICAN GAS & ELECTRIC CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Haight, of Jersey City, N. J. (Robert H. Montgomery and J. Marvin Haynes, both of Washington, D. C., on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

James A. Cosgrove, of Washington, D. C., and Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Before BOOTH, Chief Justice, and GREEN, LITTLETON, WILLIAMS, and WHALEY, Judges.


GREEN, Judge.

The plaintiff claims to have overpaid its tax for the years 1926 and 1927, and by reason thereof asks judgment in its petition for $1,699,264.88, with interest.

The Virginian Power Company was organized in 1912 and was part of a chain of operating companies controlled by the plaintiff. In 1924 the plaintiff organized the Appalachian Securities Corporation, and in 1925 that corporation acquired all of the assets and assumed all of the liabilities...

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