ROERICH v. HELVERING

No. 7578.

115 F.2d 39 (1940)

ROERICH v. HELVERING, Com'r of Internal Revenue.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 3, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. McInnis, of Washington, D. C., and John H. Jackson, of New York City, for petitioner.

J. P. Wenchel and Robt. L. Williams, both of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., John J. Pringle, Sewall Key, and Lee A. Jackson, all of the Department of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and EDGERTON and VINSON, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

The petitioner, Roerich, asks review1 of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals that he is liable for certain income taxes. The principal questions relate to sums of $73,300 and $74,271.78 which he received in 1926 and 1927. He contends that they were contributions made to him as agent or trustee, to meet the expense of an Asiatic expedition. The Commissioner and the Board found that they were income which...

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