Daggett v. Commissioner

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, as executors of the estate of Estelle P. Clark, have brought here for review a decision of the United States Board of Tax Appeals sustaining the determination of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that in the income tax return of decedent for the years 1936 and 1937, periods prior to her death on September 19, 1937, there were deficiencies of $2,365.06 and $1,149.14, respectively. These deficiencies were assessed as being the income tax due on sums of money received by the decedent after her former husband’s death from a trust which he created for…