Arthur & Shirley Pollack v. United States

Plaintiffs-appellants, Arthur and Shirley Pollack (“the taxpayers”), appeal from a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on June 10, 1986, granting the Government’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the taxpayers’ complaint with prejudice. We find that, although the taxpayers styled their complaint as a suit to quiet title to real property under 28 U.S.C. § 2410, they were actually seeking to establish the amount of interest owed them on an overpayment. Since a suit to quiet title is not the proper means for obtaining such relief,…