JACOBS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 8249.

34 F.2d 233 (1929)

JACOBS et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Goldsmith, of St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

John Vaughan Groner, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Donald V. Hunter, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before KENYON, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and McDERMOTT, District Judges.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

Morris Eisenstadt, now deceased, in his lifetime entered into an antenuptial contract with his widow, Marie Eisenstadt, then Marie Johnston, by which it was agreed that, if she survived him, she should be paid out of his estate the sum of $75,000, and that said sum should be in lieu of all her rights of dower and other marital rights. He died on July 27, 1923. His will contained a provision that his widow, at her election, in lieu of the ...

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