Legal Opinion

Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Magruder

District Court, D. Maryland

Decided June 23, 1943No. Civil Action No. 1818Published

1Opinion of the Court

COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit to recover income taxes paid for the year 1935 by the plaintiff, the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, an insurance company incorporated under the laws of Maryland, in the amount of $27,500 and interest.

The material facts, as to which there is no dispute, may be summarized as follows:

In September, 1931, the affairs of the Baltimore Trust Company, one of Baltimore’s large banking institutions, were in a precarious condition as a result of -the financial depression that was spreading over the entire country. In an effort to obviate the closing of…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Charles Ilfeld Co. v. HernandezSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Avery v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1927
  3. Bingham v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
  4. Helvering v. Lerner Stores Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  5. Mahler v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1941

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