Brinton v. Commissioner

*475OPINION.

Goodrich :

Petitioners contend that the basis for determining the profit on the sale of the stock is the fair market value at the date of its distribution to them in 1928. Respondent has determined and maintains that the basis is the fair market value of the stock on March 1, 1913. In the case of the decedent’s widow, now Lillian McDonald Brinton, he argues that she acquired the stock in question as her share of the community property, and that her election to take under the will was a nullity. We cannot agree with this argument.

Clearly by his will the decedent disposed of his separate…