UNITED STATES v. STATE OF VERMONT

No. 272, Docket 27779.

317 F.2d 446 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. The STATE OF VERMONT, Cutting & Trimming, Inc., Chittenden Trust Company of Burlington, Rainbow Children's Dress Company of New York, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Kovner, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Fred E. Youngman, Washington, D. C. (Joseph F. Radigan, U. S. Atty., John H. Carnahan, Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for United States of America.

Charles E. Gibson, Jr., Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt., for the State of Vermont.

Before MOORE, FRIENDLY and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

This case raises a question in the vexed field of federal tax lien priority not squarely ruled by any of the numerous decisions of the Supreme Court. It involves a conflict between a state tax assessment, definite in amount, which became a lien on all of a taxpayer's property but did not relate to specific assets, and a later federal tax assessment with precisely the same attributes, in a situation to which the federal priority-in-insolvency...

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