KENAN v. BOWERS


48 F.2d 263 (1930)

KENAN et al. v. BOWERS, Collector of Internal Revenue.

District Court, S. D. New York.

October 27, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Root, Clark & Buckner, of New York City (George E. Cleary, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Charles H. Tuttle, of New York City (Walter H. Schulman, of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.


FRANK J. COLEMAN, District Judge.

The principal question presented is whether the taxpayer, Mary Flagler Bingham, was entitled to a deduction of $308,860.69 from her gross income of 1917 because of her payment of that amount to the trustees of her deceased husband's estate as compensation for their services. The husband, Henry M. Flagler, had died in 1913 leaving all his property, valued at about $26,000,000, in trust for a period of five years with the power in the...

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