AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY v. SMYTH

No. 33507.

141 F.Supp. 414 (1956)

AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY, a corporation, as Trustee, Plaintiff, v. James G. SMYTH, Collector of Internal Revenue, and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

June 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

Plaintiff, as trustee of a testamentary trust, seeks the refund of capital gains taxes paid under protest. The facts are not in dispute. Jurisdiction is necessarily invoked under 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (a) (1).

In 1946 plaintiff trustee sold part of the property constituting the corpus of the trust at a profit. Defendant Collector of Internal Revenue collected a capital gains tax based on the gain resulting from that sale of...

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