Swift & Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. The facts are stated .in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
delivered - the opinion of the court.
The Swift and Courtney and .Beecher Company filed its petition Jan. 20, 1879, in the Court of/Claims, for the recovery of certain commissions alleged 'to' be, due to it on purchases of proprietary stamps under the internal revenue laws.
It.. alleged that it was, during, the period covered by the transactions set out, the proprietor,.manufacturer, and vendor of friction-matches; • that, as such-, at the beginning of its busi-. ness, it furnished ,to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue its own die for stamps, to be used especially for its own proprietary…
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