COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WILSON

No. 5791.

90 F.2d 788 (1937)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WILSON et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

June 21, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Joseph M. Jones, Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Irvin H. Fathchild, of Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

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


MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is seeking to have reversed a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals determining a deficiency of Federal income tax against the estate of John C. Spry for the year 1924. The taxpayer in his income tax return for that year claimed a deduction in the sum of $32,553.83.

Ellen Spry, mother of the taxpayer, died April, 1918, testate, leaving an estate of real and personal property which, after certain bequests...

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