Legal Opinion

Bonney v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided September 22, 1933No. Docket No. 55248Published

1Opinion of the Court

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Trammell:

The question here is whether the corpus oí the trust should be included in the gross estate of the decedent. The respondent has determined that it should be. The trust agreement reserved to the settlor the right to receive the income from the trust during his lifetime; it reserved to the settlor the right to supervise investments for the trustee, and there was included in the trust agreement a provision under the operation of which there was a possibility of the trust property reverting to the settlor in the event the beneficiaries predeceased him.

In our opinion, neither nor…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Reinecke v. Northern Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1929
  2. Nichols v. CoolidgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  3. May v. HeinerSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  4. Coolidge v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  5. Cyrus H. McCormick v. David BurnetSupreme Court of the United States · 1931

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