AYER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 281.

63 F.2d 231 (1933)

AYER et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 14, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Craig Peacock, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John H. McEvers and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., of Washington, D. C. (C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Dean P. Kimball, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Frederick Ayer, a resident and inhabitant of Massachusetts, died in 1918, by his will appointing the three petitioners his executors. They qualified, but his estate was so delayed in administration, that during the year 1925 they were still holding it as such. They filed an income tax return as executors for that year in the District of Massachusetts, on which the Commissioner later assessed a deficiency, at a time when they had been discharged...

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