UNITED STATES v. ADAMS

No. 8426.

92 F.2d 395 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. ADAMS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. B. Waldo and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank F. Taylor, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Fort Worth, Tex., and J. L. Backstrom, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, of Dallas, Tex., for the United States.

Phillips, Trammell, Estes, Edwards & Orn and Boykin, Ray & Shirley, all of Fort Worth, Tex., for appellees.

Before SIBLEY and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges, and STRUM, District Judge.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was against ninety-two defendants, stockholders of United Oil Company, a joint stock association. It was brought to establish their liability as transferees for the government's tax claim of $87,000 against that company, because of the dividends they had received in liquidation of it.

On February 25, 1936, nearly six years after the suit was filed, the motions of some of the defendants to dismiss plaintiff's second amended...

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