UNITED STATES v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 7465.

256 F.2d 17 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1958.

On Rehearing June 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louise Foster, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Albert M. Morgan, U. S. Atty., Morgantown, W. Va., on the brief), for appellant.

Howard Caplan, Clarksburg, W. Va. (Stewart McReynolds, Stotler, McReynolds & Caplan, Clarksburg, W. Va., George E. Walton, New York City, Charles M. Preston, Daniel J. Reidy, Agnes S. Hunt, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a judgment dismissing, as against two insurance companies, an action to foreclose a tax lien on the cash surrender value of two insurance policies issued to a taxpayer, who had been convicted of tax frauds and had fled from the country. The District Court held that, in the absence of an election by the insured to take the cash surrender value of the policies, he had no property therein to which a lien...

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