UNITED STATES v. WELLS FARGO BANK

No. 21620.

393 F.2d 272 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. WELLS FARGO BANK, formerly Wells Fargo Bank American Trust Co., etc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

April 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Kauder (argued), Lee A. Jackson, David O. Walter, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Richard C. Pugh, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Cecil Poole, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Henry C. Clausen (argued), of Clausen & Clausen, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before BARNES, HAMLIN and CARTER, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of California. Our jurisdiction is established by 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1964).

The facts of the case are undisputed. On May 19, 1955, a federal estate tax return was filed on behalf of the estate of one Augusta W. Lachmund, whose death had occurred on February 28, 1954; the tax was paid as reported. Claiming that...

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