GARRETT'S ESTATE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 2, Docket 20775.

180 F.2d 955 (1950)

GARRETT'S ESTATE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit

Decided March 31, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jos. W. Burns, Harmon Duncombe, New York City, Edmund S. Kochersperger, Washington, D. C., argued for petitioners.

Charles Oliphant, Washington, D. C., Theron L. Caudle, Assistant Attorney General, Ellis N. Slack, Robert N. Anderson, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, Edward J. P. Zimmerman, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, argued, for respondents.

Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and GOODRICH and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Chief Judge.

The executors of Paul Garrett appeal from — petition to review — an order of the Tax Court, in banc, which included in whole or in part, the trust funds of two trusts, set up by Garrett, their testator: one in 1923, and the other in 1929. Although the settlor died in 1940, the Tax Court held that both trusts were made "in contemplation of death" within the meaning of the statute,1 and the case...

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