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· 4/25/1960

New Hampshire Fire Insurance v. Scanlon

Citations

  • 362 U.S. 404
  • 80 S. Ct. 843
  • 4 L. Ed. 2d 826
  • 1960 U.S. LEXIS 1935
  • 1 C.B. 629
  • 3 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 16
  • 5 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 1302

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  • “Summary trials ... may be conducted without formal pleadings, on short notice, without summons and complaints, generally on affidavits, and sometimes even ex parte.”
  • summary process inappropriate to adjudicate, as between the Department of Revenue and a surety of the taxpayer, who owns the right to collect the taxpayer's account receivable
  • \history of § 2463 plainly indicates a congressional purpose to protect that property in the revenue officer's custody and not to transfer that custody either actually or fictionally into the custody of the federal courts\

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Judges: Black

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