STEWART v. C.I.R.

No. 86-4732.

841 F.2d 118 (1988)

Robert E. STEWART and Gloria H. Stewart, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Gourlay, Jr., Gerald, Brand, Watters, Cox & Hemleben, Jackson, Miss., James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Janet Kay Jones, Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Chief Counsel, I.R.S., Henry G. Salamy, Michael L. Paup, Chief, Roger M. Olsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Appellate Sec., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Richard Farber, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Tax cases focus on questions of value. Two concerns are usually paramount: First, whether the taxpayer has a right to the favorable tax treatment claimed; second, whether the value assigned to the claimed right is accurate. In trying this case, however, the Tax Court focused upon whether the taxpayer had an invulnerable title to donated property, in some abstract sense, although no one having standing to do so had ever attacked the taxpayer's title...

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