HELVERING v. UNITED STATES TRUST CO.

No. 266.

111 F.2d 576 (1940)

HELVERING, Com'r of Internal Revenue, v. UNITED STATES TRUST CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

April 29, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and L. W. Post, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Harry J. Ahlheim and Reeves, Todd, Ely & Biaty, all of New York City (Harry J. Ahlheim, and Ambrose G. Todd, both of New York City, of counsel), for respondents.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The question in this case is whether any part of a trust fund, set up by the testator during his life, shall be included as part of his gross estate under section 302 (d) of the Revenue Act of 1926, 26 U.S.C.A.Int. Rev.Acts, page 228. He had become estranged from his wife some years before he died, and in contemplation of a divorce which followed within a few months, he made an agreement with her on January 31, 1929, by which he agreed to pay...

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