UNITED STATES v. ROBBINS

No. 493.

269 U.S. 315 (1926)

UNITED STATES v. ROBBINS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Messrs. Robert P. Reeder and Frederick W. Dewart, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and A.W. Gregg, Solicitor of Internal Revenue, were on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Lloyd M. Robbins and Peter F. Dunne, with whom Mr. Carey Van Fleet was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit to recover $6,788.03 income tax for the year 1918, paid by R.D. Robbins, late of California. Mr. Robbins was married and the income taxed came from community property in California, acquired before 1917, when some changes were made in the law, and from the earnings of Mr. Robbins. He was required by the Treasury...

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