UNITED STATES v. PIEROTTI

No. 10898.

154 F.2d 758 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. PIEROTTI.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 2, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sewall Key, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and Helen R. Carloss and Carlton Fox, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Charles H. Carr, U. S. Atty., and Edward H. Mitchell, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

A. Calder Mackay, Arthur McGregor, Howard W. Reynolds, and Charles J. Higson, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, STEPHENS, and ORR, Circuit Judges.


ORR, Circuit Judge.

In this opinion appellant will be referred to as the Government and appellee as taxpayer.

The question involved is whether the property owned by taxpayer and her husband at the time of his death was held by them in joint tenancy or as so-called new style "post-1927" community property under California law.

In assessing the tax the Government included all the property held by the parties at the time of the husband's death. Taxpayer...

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