EVANS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10683.

198 F.2d 435 (1952)

EVANS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 10, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip A. Bregy, Philadelphia, Pa. (Morse Garwood, Harold Evans, Philadelphia, Pa., MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for petitioner.

George F. Lynch, Washington, D. C. (Ellis N. Slack, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., A. F. Prescott, Fred E. Youngman, Spe. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before MARIS, GOODRICH and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The single issue raised on this appeal is whether the terms and scheme of a trust indenture are such as to enable a valuation of a beneficiary's present interest in the trusted property which will support a claim of the settlor to a gift tax exemption under the familiar statutory exclusion of the first $3,000 given to any person during a taxable year. The Tax Court rejected the claimed exemption.

In 1945, the taxpayer by a single trust...

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