GARDINER v. UNITED STATES

No. 2531.

49 F.2d 992 (1931)

GARDINER v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

On Rehearing May 28, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris H. Gilman, of Boston, Mass. (Allan H. W. Higgins, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellants.

J. Duke Smith, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass. (Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for the United States.

Before BINGHAM, ANDERSON, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises the single question whether the Samuel Hammond Real Estate Trust is an association subject to taxes as a corporation for the five years ending June 30, 1926.

By stressing the facts that this trust succeeded to a testamentary trust, and that its actual business activities have been little more than those of the testamentary trustees, learned counsel for the appellant has made a fairly plausible argument that it should...

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