GALE v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 19583.

13 T.C. 661 (1949)

ELSIE B. GALE, FORMERLY ELSIE B. WIMPFHEIMER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated October 28, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas N. Tarleau, Esq., and Sandow Holman, Esq., for the petitioner.

John J. Madden, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent has determined a deficiency in income tax for the calendar year 1944 in the amount of $14,133.74. The petitioner by appropriate assignment of error raises the following issues:

(1) Whether the amount of $19,000 received by the petitioner in 1944 from her former husband as a result of the modification of a prior decree of divorce, constituted taxable income to the petitioner under section 22 (k) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(2) Whether the petitioner...

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