COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. SWENT

No. 5449.

155 F.2d 513 (1946)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. SWENT et ux.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

May 8, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Walter Shine, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Robert N. Anderson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for petitioner.

Nathan Moran, of San Francisco, Cal. (George E. Haw, of Richmond, Va., on the brief), for respondents.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Tax Court of the United States allowing the taxpayers James Swent and Ursula Swent (husband and wife) an exemption from United States income taxes on $25,000 earned during the year 1940 by James Swent in Mexico. There is no dispute as to the facts.

The applicable statute is Section 116(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 116, prior to the 1942 amendments, which reads...

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