KEITH v. JOHNSON

No. 295.

271 U.S. 1 (1926)

KEITH, FORMER COLLECTOR, v. JOHNSON, ADMINISTRATRIX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Newton K. Fox and W.H. Trigg, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. A.W. Gregg, Solicitor of Internal Revenue, were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. Sidney V. Lowell and John M. Perry, with whom Messrs. Harrison Tweed and Benjamin Mahler were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1917, John B. Johnson, a resident of New York, died intestate. Respondent was appointed administratrix, and in that year paid to the State $233,044.20, the transfer tax imposed pursuant to Art. X, Tax Law, c. 60, Consolidated Laws. When respondent made the income tax return for the estate for 1917 (Revenue Act of 1916, c. 463, 39 Stat. 756, 757), she claimed that the...

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