HOUSTON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7787.

124 F.2d 518 (1941)

HOUSTON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sabato M. Bendiner, of Philadelphia, Pa, (Irvin Bendiner, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for petitioner.

Michael H. Cardozo, IV, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The taxpayer in 1934 made a gift of five life insurance policies on his own life. The policies had been issued prior to 1914 on the twenty-payment-life plan and at the time when the taxpayer's gift was made had become fully paid up. The taxpayer contends that the value of the policies, upon which the gift tax is to be estimated, should be the cash surrender value they bore at the date of the transfer. The Commissioner's contention is that the value should...

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