GOLDSTEIN v. PEARSON

No. 1740.

121 A.2d 260 (1956)

Barney GOLDSTEIN and Edith Goldstein, Appellants, v. Guy W. PEARSON, Collector of Taxes, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 8, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Leonard S. Melrod, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

George F. Donnella, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and George C. Updegraff, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

On September 1, 1949 and September 1, 1950, certain personal property taxes were assessed by the District of Columbia against appellants Barney and Edith Goldstein. The taxes were not paid and Barney Goldstein was adjudicated a bankrupt in 1951. On March 7, 1951, the Collector of Taxes filed in the bankruptcy proceeding a claim for the unpaid taxes. His claim was allowed as a priority claim, but no payment was made upon it as the bankrupt estate...

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