FOSTER v. UNITED STATES

No. 42642.

17 F.Supp. 191 (1936)

FOSTER et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh C. Bickford, of Washington, D. C. (C. Clifton Owens, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

George H. Foster, 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 plaintiffs, claiming that the decedent in her lifetime overpaid her taxes for the year 1930, bring this suit to recover the alleged overpayment, being $740.60 together with interest from March 12, 1931. There is no dispute as to the facts.

For the calendar year 1930 the decedent filed a return stating her taxable income to be $29,697.29 and paid the tax thereon. Included in decedent's reported income was the sum of $23,250 received from the...

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