BURDICK v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 57.

117 F.2d 972 (1941)

BURDICK et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 10, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Townsend & Lewis, of New York City (Dallas S. Townsend, Joseph Wadsworth, and Ralph M. Jerskey, all of New York City, of counsel), for petitioners.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. and Sewall Key and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen. for respondent.

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


CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners are trustees under the will of Willard A. Lalor who died a resident of the District of Columbia October 9, 1934. The federal estate tax return was filed in the office of the Collector for the Second New York District and in it a deduction was taken under Sec. 303(a) (3) of the Revenue Act of 1926, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, page 234, to the amount of $400,000 as a charitable bequest to the Lalor Foundation, Inc., which was concededly...

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