First Nat. Bank v. Commissioner

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals sustaining a deficiency assessment against the estate of Louis A. Pires, deceased. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in determining the amount of the assessment, included in the value of the estate the value of certain property, consisting of bank stock which within two years prior to his 'death Pires transferred to Elizabeth Bacon, and of an amount which he bequeathed in the residuary clause of his will to several local lodges or subordinate bodies of the York and Scottish Rites of Masonry. The…