COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WELLS

No. 5974.

88 F.2d 339 (1937)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WELLS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

February 22, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice J. Mahoney, of Washington, D. C., Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch and L. W. Post, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

George D. Smith, of Chicago, Ill., and Thomas M. Wilkins, of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before EVANS and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This review involves an alleged deficiency in gift tax under the Revenue Act of 1932. The facts as found by the Board of Tax Appeals are not disputed.

The taxpayer is an individual, a citizen and resident of the United States. On December 27, 1933, he created three irrevocable trusts, one for each of his three minor children. Thereafter, within that calendar year, he transferred, without valuable consideration, to each of the three trusts...

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