HOUSMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 288.

105 F.2d 973 (1939)

HOUSMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 26, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Proskauer, Rose & Paskus, of New York City (Joseph M. Proskauer, David Katz, and Wilbur H. Friedman, all of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and F. E. Youngman, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, CHASE, and PATTERSON, Circuit Judges.


PATTERSON, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ruled that $66,093.54 paid by the petitioner to her son William in 1933 was subject to gift tax under the Revenue Act of 1932 and gave notice of tax deficiency of $2,490.80. The petitioner took the matter to the Board of Tax Appeals, claiming that the payment was not a gift but was made as the result of a trust impressed on her income and also as the result of an enforceable agreement between her and her...

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