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WELLS v. UNITED STATES

No. 14783.

214 F.2d 380 (1954)

WELLS et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John O. Collins, Ancon, Canal Zone, for appellants.

Maurice P. Wolk, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Rowland K. Hazard, U. S. Dist. Atty., Ancon, Canal Zone, for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, RIVES, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought against the United States in the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, by Ray B. Wells and 1500 others, citizens of the United States employed by it in the Canal Zone, the suit was to recover sums deducted as income taxes from their salaries for the calendar year 1951.

The claim stated in detail and at length in the complaint was: that the income tax under the purported authority of which the deductions...

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