MISBOURNE PICTURES LIMITED v. JOHNSON

No. 276, Docket 22013.

189 F.2d 774 (1951)

MISBOURNE PICTURES LIMITED et al. v. JOHNSON.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Choate Byrd Leon & Garretson, New York City, Joseph H. Choate, Jr., Maurice Leon and Maurice Hahn, all of New York City, of counsel, for appellants.

Irving H. Saypol, U. S. Atty., New York City, Henry L. Glenn and Lawrence G. Greene, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, of counsel, for appellee.

Before SWAN, Chief Judge, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for the recovery of income taxes for the year 1943 paid to the defendant collector. The plaintiffs are British corporations not engaged in trade or business in the United States. Pursuant to a contract they had made with Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., a New York corporation, the latter paid them in London, England, $201,000 ($40,000 and £40,000) upon which a tax of 30%, subject to withholding at the source, was collected by virtue...

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