Legal Opinion

Harnischfeger v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided October 3, 1934No. Docket No. 69636Published

Gifts made by the decedent to members of his family and others within two years of the date of his death were not made in contemplation of death.

1Opinion of the Court

MARIE E. HARNISCHFEGER, WALTER HARNISCHFEGER, AND RENE VON SCHLEINITZ, EXECUTORS UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HENRY HARNISCHFEGER, DECEASED, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

Harnischfeger v. Commissioner

Docket No. 69636.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

31 B.T.A. 224; 1934 BTA LEXIS 1125;

October 3, 1934, Promulgated

Gifts made by the decedent to members of his family and others within two years of the date of his death were not made in contemplation of death.

Louis Quarles, Esq., James T. Guy, Esq. and Richard S. Doyle, Esq., for the petitioners.

J. R.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Harnischfeger v. CommissionerUnited States Board of Tax Appeals · 1934

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