ESTATE OF PIERCE v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 34006.

24 T.C. 95 (1955)

ESTATE OF MARION B. PIERCE, DECEASED, ASBURY PARK NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed April 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Carton, Jr., Esq., for the petitioner.

Norman A. Peil, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a deficiency in the income tax liability of Marion B. Pierce, deceased, for 1945, in the amount of $12,855.03. Part of the deficiency is uncontested. There are two questions for decision which arise under section 107(a), as amended, of the 1939 Code: (1) Whether services of Pierce as general counsel of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation in reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, were separate from his services as an...

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