Show UNCLE SAM LOSES CASE will be obliged to refund of the spanish war taxes washington the tha united states court of claims on monday decided in favor ot of the plaintiff in a caso case against the government investigating the question of the obligation of the secretary of the treasury to t refund collected under the inheritance tax provision of the spanish war revenue act of at june 33 13 1898 the prea prent and prospective claims which are practically decided by this case it la Is believed will aggregate about the act ot of april 12 1902 directed the secretary ot of the treasury to refund as much ot of the tax under the act of 1898 as may have been collected on contingent beneficial interests which had not become actually vested prior to july 1 1902 |