Opinion
Nos. 5438, 5439.
May 15, 1935.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Robert M. Gibson, Judge.
Suits by McKeesport Tin Plate Company against D.B. Heiner, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-Third District of the United States in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and against the United States of America to recover back taxes alleged to have been unlawfully assessed. Judgments for defendants ( 4 F. Supp. 245, motion for new trial denied 4 F. Supp. 923), and plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
S. Leo Ruslander and Samuel Kaufman, both of Pittsburgh, Pa. (J.P. Fife and Wm. J. Levy, both of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Harry Friedman, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellant.
Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Warren F. Wattles, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for appellees.
Before BUFFINGTON and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges, and JOHNSON, District Judge.
In the court below the taxpayer, McKeesport Tin Plate Company, brought suit against the Collector of Internal Revenue to recover back taxes alleged to have been unlawfully assessed. By written stipulation, trial by jury was waived and the case was heard by the judge, who found in favor of defendant. On entry of judgment, the taxpayer took this appeal. Such judgment is as conclusive as the verdict of a jury, and a review thereof on the taxpayer's appeal is restricted to what was reviewable on a judgment entered on a verdict. The findings of fact and the conclusions of law are set forth at great length in the opinion and findings of the trial judge. On a motion for a new trial, additional briefs were filed and a reargument had. Indeed, the case has had most thorough consideration. An independent study thereof by the members of this court satisfies each of us that no error has been committed, and as a further opinion would be but a studied effort to clothe in different language what has been said by the court below, we limit ourselves to affirming the judgment on Judge Gibson's opinion, (D.C.) 4 F. Supp. 245, and also the judgment entered in No. 5439, which was a suit brought by the taxpayer against the United States.