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Gellman v. United States

District Court, D. Minnesota

Decided January 26, 1955No. Civ. A. No. 4324PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOYCE, District Judge.

This is a suit for recovery of amounts alleged to have been wrongfully collected from plaintiffs as federal retail excise taxes with respect to certain luggage and jewelry sold by plaintiffs and a predecessor corporation during the period January 1, 1947 through February 1951.

The plaintiffs are co-partners under the name Gellman Brothers. The firm and its predecessors of the same name have been engaged since 1919 in the business of selling a variety of premium and novelty merchandise. For many years it has issued catalogs descriptive of its line of goods and in…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Cohan v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
  2. United States v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. Helvering v. Stockholms Enskilda BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  4. Roland Electrical Co. v. WallingSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  5. Indian Motocycle Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Nathan Gellman, Burt Horwitz and Peter Podany, Co-Partners, D/B/A Gellman Brothers v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956
  2. Salvation Army v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1956

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