Legal Opinion

Huntington v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided March 14, 1929No. Docket Nos. 25806, 25807Published

Where one who has sold a tract of land on the deferred-payment plan and has so returned for tax the gain arising from the sale, and where after the sale had been completed, entered into a contract with certain of his children to whom he had attempted to make oral gifts of parts of the land sold whereby he irrevocably assigned to each child that part of each purchase-money note which represented the part of the sale price of the tract attempted to be given, and by the terms…

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Where one who has sold a tract of land on the deferred-payment plan and has so returned for tax the gain arising from the sale, and where after the sale had been completed, entered into a contract with certain of his children to whom he had attempted to make oral gifts of parts of the land sold whereby he irrevocably assigned to each child that part of each purchase-money note which represented the part of the sale price of the tract attempted to be given, and by the terms of the contract agreed to and did place the notes in the possession of a bank, the bank to pay each child his part, held…

1Opinion of the Court

WALLACE HUNTINGTON, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

ANNIE HUNTINGTON, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

Huntington v. Commissioner

Docket Nos. 25806, 25807.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

15 B.T.A. 851; 1929 BTA LEXIS 2776;

March 14, 1929, Promulgated

Where one who has sold a tract of land on the deferred-payment plan and has so returned for tax the gain arising from the sale, and where after the sale had been completed, entered into a contract with certain of his children to whom he had attempted to make oral gifts of parts of the land…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Gould v. GouldSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
  2. United States v. MerriamSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  3. Shwab v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
  4. Eidman v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  5. Taft v. BowersSupreme Court of the United States · 1929

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