BURNET v. WHITCOMB

No. 5664.

65 F.2d 803 (1933)

BURNET, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, v. WHITCOMB.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided May 22, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. A. Youngquist, Sewall Key, Wm. Cutler Thompson, C. M. Charest, Dewitt M. Evans, and John D. Foley, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Claude R. Branch, of Boston, Mass., and W. W. Spalding, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves income taxes for the year 1921, and is prosecuted by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from an order of redetermination of the Board of Tax Appeals.

The controversy relates to the estate of A. C. Whitcomb, deceased, a resident of the state of California, who died in the year 1889, leaving a last will which was admitted to probate by the superior court of San Francisco. The decedent left surviving him his widow...

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