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KOHN v. CENTRAL DISTRIBUTING CO.

No. 177.

306 U.S. 531 (1939)

KOHN ET AL., ADMINISTRATORS, v. CENTRAL DISTRIBUTING CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harvey H. Smith for appellants.

Mr. J.J. Leary, with whom Messrs. Hubert Meredith, Attorney General of Kentucky, Clifford E. Smith, and Samuel M. Rosenstein were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, acting through its Commissioner of Revenue, brought suit in the Franklin Circuit Court of that State to recover the amount of a tax claimed to be due from the Central Distributing Company, a Kentucky corporation. A writ of attachment was issued and levied upon certain whiskey which appellants claimed was subject to their lien under a chattel mortgage executed by the company...

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