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UNITED STATES v. HANKINS

Nos. 76-3467 and 77-1967.

565 F.2d 1344 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America and Robert E. Grant, Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. A. Burton HANKINS, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Bewel A. Hankins, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Robert Lewis Smith, Intervenor-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America and Robert E. Grant, Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service, Petitioners-Appellees, v. A. Burton HANKINS and Hugh C. Montgomery, Jr., Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul P. Lipton, Milwaukee, Wis., James S. Nippes, Jackson, Miss., for A. Burton Hankins.

Charles L. Brocato, Jackson, Miss., for Hugh C. Montgomery, Jr.

J. N. Raines, Michael A. Robinson, Memphis, Tenn., for Robert L. Smith.

H. M. Ray. U. S. Atty., William M. Dye, Jr., Thomas W. Dawson, Asst. U. S. Attys., Alfred E. Moreton, III, Oxford, Miss., Gilbert E. Andrews, Chief, App. Section, Myron C. Baum, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Lindsay, M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Charles E. Brookhart, William A. Whitledge, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Before COLEMAN, SIMPSON, and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal. No. 76-3467 is taken from orders of the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi enforcing several summonses directed by the Internal Revenue Service to A. Burton Hankins, Hugh Montgomery, and Robert Lewis Smith, 26 U.S.C., § 7602.

No. 77-1967 is from a subsequent order of the Court finding Hankins in contempt of its earlier enforcement order and Montgomery in contempt for refusing...

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