HALL v. HELVERING

Nos. 6017, 6018.

70 F.2d 284 (1934)

HALL v. HELVERING, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. BIRD v. SAME.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided March 12, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. E. H. Goodner, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, Louise Foster, E. Barrett Prettyman, F. B. Schlosser, and S. S. Faulkner, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

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


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

These cases arise upon the same facts and involve the same legal questions. They have been submitted together, and will be so treated in this opinion.

It appears that Joseph T. Bird, a resident of Kansas City, Mo., departed this life testate on September 8, 1918, leaving a large estate composed of real and personal property. The petitioners herein are the widow and daughter of the decedent and the sole devisees of his estate under his...

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