STONE ET AL.
v.
WHITE, FORMER COLLECTOR
STONE ET AL.
WHITE, FORMER COLLECTOR
300 U.S. 643
Supreme Court of the United States (1937)
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Gooch Milling & Elevator Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 133 F.2d 131 (8th Cir. 1943)…court is powerless to prevent an unjust enrichment of one of the parties before it. Recoupment is purely defensive and is equitable in its nature. It reduces the claim affirmatively urged so far as in reason and conscience it ought. Stone v. White, 300 U.S. 643, 57 S.Ct. 610, 81 L.Ed. 858; Williams v. Neely, 8 Cir., 134 F. 1, 69 L.R.A. 232. That the facts and circumstances here disclosed are such as to give rise to the right of recoupment is not seriously questioned. But it is urged that the Board of Tax…