Legal Opinion
Mead v. Welch
District Court, S.D. California
Decided March 11, 1936No. 4071PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCORMICK, District Judge.
According to the briefs in this case, but two issues remain unsettled and undecided: First, whether or not the Commissioner of Internal Revenue erred by including in the gross estate of William Mead, deceased, the sum of $115,400 transferred by decedent to others under the “Mead 1926 Trust,” and, second, whether or not the •Commissioner of Internal Revenue erred by including in the gross estate and subject to tax the sum of $959,638.97, representing the alleged market value of a bequest in the will of William Mead to the “Mead Housing Trust.”
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Ithaca Trust Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
- Lewis v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Porter v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Humes v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Dort v. HelveringCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1934
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Sampson v. WelchDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1938
- Hesslein v. HoeyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1937
- United States v. GoodyearCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938
- United States v. GoodyearCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938