Bank of Iron Gate v. Maggie Brady
Decision Date | 24 March 1902 |
Docket Number | No. 175,175 |
Citation | 22 S.Ct. 529,46 L.Ed. 739,184 U.S. 665 |
Parties | BANK OF IRON GATE, Plff. in Err. , v. MAGGIE A. BRADY, Executrix of James D. Brady, Deceased |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
On September 11, 1900, the plaintiff in error as plaintiff commenced this action in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia. The declaration, after stating that both parties were citizens of Virginia, alleged that the plaintiff was a state bank, chartered under the laws of that state, and the defendant a collector of internal revenue of the United States for the second district of Virginia, and that
A demurrer to this declaration was filed, sustained, and judgment entered for the defendant. Thereupon this writ of error was sued out. After the case had reached this court the defendant, James D. Brady, died, and an application was made to revive in the name of his personal representative.
Mr. William L. Royall for plaintiff in error.
Solicitor General Richards for defendant in error.
We have recently had before us a similar action against the same party, in which also was presented the question of surviv- orship, Patton v. Brady, 184 U. S. 608, ante, p. 493, 22 Sup. Ct. Rep. 493, and to the opinion filed in that case we refer for a discussion of the question. There the amount of property taken by the defendant as collector was over $3,000; here it is only $70. So far as a recovery of the tax charged to have been illegally levied and collected is sought, it is practically an action in assumpsit for money had and received. Beyond that nothing is suggested but a tort, and a tort by which the estate of the defendant was not increased and the estate of the plaintiff damaged only as an indirect consequence of the alleged wrongful act of the defendant. Such a tort does not, either at common law or by the statutes of Virginia, survive the death of the wrongdoer. See authorities referred to in the opinion cited.
It may be added that it is not easy to see how upon the acts charged against the defendant there could be, even if the tax were declared illegal, any further recovery than the amount of such...
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