GROVE v. C. I. R.

No. 847, Docket 73-1037.

490 F.2d 241 (1973)

Philip GROVE and Harriet Grove, Appellees, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley J. Filer, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Elmer J. Kelsey, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellant.

Mason G. Kassel, New York City (R. Palmer Baker, Jr., and Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and KILKENNY and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

We are called upon, once again, to wrestle with the tangled web that is the Internal Revenue Code and decipher the often intricate and ingenious strategies devised by taxpayers to minimize their tax burdens. We undertake this effort mindful that taxpayer ingenuity, although channelled into an effort to reduce or eliminate the incidence of taxation, is ground for neither legal nor moral opprobrium. As Learned Hand so eloquently stated, "any one...

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