United States v. John Barth Co.

This was a suit by the United States, through its District Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, against the John Barth Company, a corporation of Wisconsin, and the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, a corporation of Maryland. The subject matter of the suit is the recovery of the amount due on a bond in the sum of $60,000 whereby the respondents bound them selves jointly and severally to payto the United States the sum therein named under the following circumstances and conditions.

On June 25, 1919, the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue assessed income and…