UNITED STATES v. NICHOLS

No. 3282.

92 F.2d 704 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. NICHOLS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 22, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Jones, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Berryman Green, Sp. Assts. to Attorney General, on the brief), for the United States.

Philip Nichols, of Boston, Mass., for appellee.

Before BINGHAM, WILSON and MORTON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The only point relied upon and presented for our consideration at the argument of this case was whether section 803(a) of the Revenue Act of 1932 (26 U.S.C.A. § 411(c) amending section 302(c) of the Revenue Act of 1926 was constitutional if applied retroactively to the irrevocable trust here in question, executed in the year 1930, the creator of the trust having died subsequent to the effective date of the Revenue Act of 1932.

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