LANG v. COMMISSIONER

No. 919.

304 U.S. 264 (1938)

LANG, EXECUTOR, ET AL. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 16, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.B. Jones, with whom Mr. Robert E. Bronson was on the brief, for Richard E. Lang, Executor, et al.

Miss Helen R. Carloss, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. Sewall Key and J. Louis Monarch were on the brief, for the Commissioner.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Circuit Court of Appeals has certified propositions of law concerning which instructions are desired for decision of a pending cause. U.S.C., Title 28, § 346.

In 1905 Julius C. Lang married in the State of Washington, where community property laws have long obtained, and both parties continued to be domiciled there until he died in 1929. At his death...

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