KRUG v. UNITED STATES

No. 42900.

18 F.Supp. 242 (1937)

KRUG v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

March 1, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Meachem, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Joseph H. Sheppard, of Washington, D. C., and Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

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


WHALEY, Judge.

The mere reading of the facts in this case shows beyond even a reasonable doubt that the position of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in denying a refund to the plaintiff cannot be maintained in any court of law or equity. The arbitrary refusal to make a refund to one spouse merely because collection cannot be made of a deficiency from the other spouse is unlawful and inequitable. The recitation of the facts or the citation of authorities we feel...

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