BLISS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5575.

76 F.2d 101 (1935)

BLISS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

February 20, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarke & Allen, of New York City, and Joseph A. Lamorelle, of Philadelphia, Pa. (George M. Clarke and Walter C. Elliott, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Maurice J. Mahoney, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

During the period January 1, 1924, to January 10, 1924, Walter W. Bliss sustained substantial losses over income, exclusive of a loss by an alleged bad debt of $30,000. Upon the latter date, he died.

On the ground that she had been living with Walter W. Bliss, her husband, in the taxable year 1924, Katharine B. Bliss filed an income tax return for that year, made by her alone yet purporting to be a joint income tax return, claiming...

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