Legal Opinion

Coachman v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided June 29, 1951No. Docket No. 23323Published

Deductions -- Losses -- Whose -- Trust or Remaindermen. -- Losses from the sales of securities made by a trustee in order to distribute the corpus of a trust to fifty remaindermen after the death of the life beneficiary are not losses of the remaindermen for Federal income tax purposes.

1Opinion of the Court

Della M. Coachman, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Coachman v. Commissioner

Docket No. 23323

United States Tax Court

16 T.C. 1432; 1951 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 133;

June 29, 1951, Promulgated

Decision will be entered for the respondent.

Deductions -- Losses -- Whose -- Trust or Remaindermen. -- Losses from the sales of securities made by a trustee in order to distribute the corpus of a trust to fifty remaindermen after the death of the life beneficiary are not losses of the remaindermen for Federal income tax purposes.

H. L. Coachman, Esq., for the petitioner.

William W. Oliver,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Coachman v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1951

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