COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. POWERS

No. 3546.

115 F.2d 209 (1940)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. POWERS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Certiorari Granted November 12, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren F. Wattles, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for Commissioner.

Ralph G. Boyd, of Boston, Mass. (Roger E. Ela, Nutter, McClennen & Fish, and Robert Vance Brown, all of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for Powers.

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


Certiorari Granted November 12, 1940. See 61 S.Ct. 141, 85 L.Ed. ___.

SWEENEY, District Judge.

This case is before us on the petition of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals, entered January 9, 1939, in which that Board ruled that there was no deficiency in the gift tax paid by the respondent for the year 1935.

In late November and early December, 1935, the...

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