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Linsenmeyer v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided February 29, 1956No. Docket No. 51813Published

Petitioner's late husband, John Russo, died in 1941 possessing a one-seventh interest in one partnership and allegedly possessing a one-half interest in another. The businesses were continued without interruption after his death, and petitioner became a one-seventh partner in one enterprise and a one-half partner in the other. She received her distributive shares of partnership income and reported them on her individual returns.

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Petitioner's late husband, John Russo, died in 1941 possessing a one-seventh interest in one partnership and allegedly possessing a one-half interest in another. The businesses were continued without interruption after his death, and petitioner became a one-seventh partner in one enterprise and a one-half partner in the other. She received her distributive shares of partnership income and reported them on her individual returns. Although the five children of petitioner and John Russo were entitled to intestate shares of any partnership assets in which he had an interest at the time of his…

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Nellie Russo Linsenmeyer, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Linsenmeyer v. Commissioner

Docket No. 51813

United States Tax Court

25 T.C. 1126; 1956 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 259;

February 29, 1956, Filed

Decision will be entered for the respondent.

Petitioner's late husband, John Russo, died in 1941 possessing a one-seventh interest in one partnership and allegedly possessing a one-half interest in another. The businesses were continued without interruption after his death, and petitioner became a one-seventh partner in one enterprise and a one-half partner in the other. She…

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  1. Linsenmeyer v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1956

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