PSATY & FUHRMAN, INC.,
v.
STIMSON, SECRETARY OF WAR, ET AL.

D.C. Cir. | 1950-05-22
No. 10156
Before PRETTYMAN, BAZELON and FAHY, Circuit Judges.
182 F.2d 985 United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1950) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, on March 16, 1942, entered into a contract with the Government for the construction of a hospital. The Secretary of War renegotiated the contract on a completed contract basis and, on February 7, 1944, made a unilateral determination that petitioner had excessive profits of $700,000. Petitioner applied to the Tax Court for a determination that the renegotiation of its contract must be upon a fiscal (which in this case was calendar) year basis. The Tax Court supported the Secretary.

It is now settled that a question such as the one here before us, being neither constitutional nor jurisdictional, is one which the Tax Court under the statute, 50 U.S.C. A.Appendix § 1191, has exclusive and final jurisdiction to determine.1.The petition must, therefore, he

Dismissed.

. Lichtor v. United States, 1948, 334 U.S. 742, 68 S.Ct. 1294, 92 L.Ed. 1694; Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch, 1947, 331 U.S. 752, 67 S.Ct. 1493, 91 L.Ed. 1796; Macauley v. Waterman S. S. Corp., 1946, 327 U.S. 540, 66 S.Ct. 712, 90 L.Ed. 839; Ring Const. Corporation v. Secretary of War of U. S., 1949, 85 U.S.App.D.C. 386, 178 F. 2d 714, certiorari denied, 1950, 339 U.S. 943, 70 S. Ct. 796; Eastern Machinery Company v. Under Secretary of War, 1950, 86 U.S. App.D.C. —, 182 F. 2d 99; Blanchard Mach. Co. v. Reconstruction Finance Corp., 1949, 85 U.S.App.D.C. 361, 177 F. 2d 727, certiorari denied, 1950, 339 U.S, 912, 70 S.Ct. 571; U. S. Electrical Motors v. Jones, 1946, 80 U.S.App.D.C. 329, 153 F. 2d 134.


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