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232 U.S. 308

34 S. Ct. 437

58 L. Ed. 616

Docket (NO. 2).

Docket No. 630.

United States v. Bennett

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued January 6, 7, 1914.

Decided February 24, 1914.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1914-02-24

<p>CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT.</p> <p>The facts are stated in the opinion.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1927

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Certification to/from lower court · 8–0 · Decided 1914-02-24

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¶1CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT.

¶2United States v. Goelet, ante, p. 293, followed to effect that the tax imposed by § 37 of the Tariff Act of 1909 does not apply to the use of a foreign-built yacht owned by a citizen of the United States who *309was permanently resident and domiciled in a foreign country for more than one year prior to September 1, 1909, and to the levy of such .tax.

¶3The facts are stated in the opinion.

¶4Mr. Assistant Attorney General Adkins, with whom Mr. Karl W. Kirchwey was on the brief, for the United States.1

¶5Mr. William D. Guthrie for the yacht owner in this and other cases'argued simultaneously herewith.2

¶8Mr. Chief Justice White

¶9delivered the opinion of the court.

¶10The certificate discloses that this case involves the right of the United States to recover an excise duty levied under § 37 of the Tariff Act of 1909 which became due on September 1, 1910, on the same yacht which was the subject of the duty becoming due in 1909 and which we haVe passed upon in the case just decided. All the statements as to the complaint and answer, the submission of the casé by stipulation to the court without a jury, the judgment rejecting the claim of the United States and the prosecution of error from the court below are in substance like those stated in the case concerning the tax for 1910 between the United States and Goelet this day decided. .As the result of this situation, the certificate recites, differing in that respect from the Bennett Case just previously decided, the trial court made the following finding: "Defendant is a citizen of the United States and for some years past has been domiciled in and resident of the Republic of France?’

¶11Conformably to this finding the second question propounded by the court below in this case, asks whether the act applies where the owner of the yacht, although a citizen, was permanently domiciled and residing in a foreign country for more than two years prior to Sep*310tember 1, 1910, and to the levy of such tax. As for the reasons stated in the Goelet Case, such question was answered in the negative, it follows that a like reply must be made here and- therefore there is no need of replying to any of the other questions. In deciding the previous case between the same parties, we made a reservation concerning the power of the court below to deal with the former case in the future, because of the fact that the findings in this case are absolutely in conflict with the state of things exhibited in the previous Bennett Case. Our order will be, second question answered in the negative and the other questions not answered.

¶12And it will be so certified.

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