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Show SUIT BROUGHT TO RECOVER WAR INHERITANCE ""TAX New York. April 16. A Judgment against the government for $112,000 was obtained today ia the United States circuit court In a suit brought recover tho war Inheritance tax collected by the government from the estate of Leonard Lewisohn, the millionaire mil-lionaire copper man, who died in 1901. The estate at tho time was valued at cnTy $10,000,000 and a war Inheritance Inheri-tance tax totalling $227,000 was Imposed Im-posed by the government and paid un-der'piofpst. un-der'piofpst. Subsequently as a result of the decision of the courts, on the case of the estate of Cornelius VanJer-bllt; VanJer-bllt; $115,000 was voluntarily paid back Into the Lewisohn estate and the suit, now successful, was brought to recover the balauce of 112.000. |