BOWERS v. LUMPKIN

No. 5200.

140 F.2d 927 (1944)

BOWERS, Collector of Internal Revenue for State of South Carolina, v. LUMPKIN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

February 4, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newton K. Fox, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key and A. F. Prescott, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and Claud N. Sapp, U. S. Atty., and Henry H. Edens, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Pinckney L. Cain and R. B. Herbert, both of Columbia, S. C. (Thomas, Cain & Black and Herbert & Dial, all of Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by Mrs. Lumpkin to recover individual federal income taxes alleged to have been overpaid for the years 1936 and 1937. It was tried before the District Judge without a jury and resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $22,680.10. The taxpayer had a life interest under a trust created for her benefit by the will of her former husband in one-half of the stock of a corporation which owned valuable rights in the...

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