COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. BRANCH

No. 3592.

114 F.2d 985 (1940)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. BRANCH.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 23, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. W. Post, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for Commissioner.

Richard Wait, of Boston, Mass. (John Dane, Jr. of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for Claude R. Branch.

Before MAGRUDER, and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, and PETERS, District Judge.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

In this case the Board of Tax Appeals has held that the 1934 income of a certain trust is not taxable to the grantor. On petition for review the Commissioner's argument has centered on Section 22(a) of the Revenue Act of 1934, 48 Stat. 680, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, page 669; we are asked to press on beyond Helvering v. Clifford, 309 U.S. 331, 60 S.Ct. 554, 84 L.Ed. 788, and to apply the rationale of that striking...

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