EVANS v. C. I. R.

No. 15373.

330 F.2d 518 (1964)

Lucile McCrea EVANS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

April 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Berry, Nashville, Tenn. (Cecil Sims, Nashville, Tenn., on the brief; Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, Tenn., of counsel), for petitioner.

Timothy Dyk, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Meyer Rothwacks, Giora Ben-Horin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before MILLER, CECIL and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

On July 29, 1955, the Board of Directors of the Tennessean Newspapers, Inc., which publishes the "Nashville Tennessean," adopted a resolution calling for the payment to petitioner-appellant, Lucile McCrea Evans, of monthly sums of $2,500 for two years, or a total of $60,000. The resolution recited that the payments were "intended as gifts."

Mrs. Evans is the widow of Silliman Evans, Sr., the former publisher...

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