AKERS v. SCOFIELD

Civil Action No. 190.

73 F.Supp. 553 (1947)

AKERS et ux v. SCOFIELD.

District Court, W. D. Texas, Austin Division.

September 20, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schlesinger & Goodstein, of San Antonio, Tex., and Robert Ash, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

J. M. Burnett, U. S. Atty., of San Antonio, Tex., for defendant.


RICE, District Judge.

This is a suit for refund of income taxes paid by plaintiffs.

The sole question here presented is whether money received by a self-confessed swindler from his victim, an eighty-two year old widow, is income to him and taxable as such.

The facts were stipulated and are found to be as follows:

I. Plaintiffs, James A. Akers and Lela Akers, his wife, reside in Bexar County, Texas.

II. Defendant, Frank Scofield, is...

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