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105 F.2d 903

Docket No. 129.

Fuller v. Helvering

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 30, 1939.

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1939-06-30

Cited by 5 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1953

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

3 counsel of record

Relies on Lewis v. Lewis · Sweeney v. Sweeney · Aseltine v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1939-06-30

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¶1John C. Parsons, of Hartford, Conn. (Robinson, Robinson & Cole, Francis W. Cole, and James M. Carlisle, all of Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner.

¶2James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and L. W. Post, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for Ilelvering, Commissioner.

¶3William D. Mitchell, of New York City, Harold B. Tanner, of Providence, R. I., and Rollin Browne, of New York City (Mitchell, Taylor, Capron & Marsh, of New York City, and Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, of Providence, R. I., of counsel), amici curiae.

¶4Before L. HAND, SWAN, and'AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6 This case differs from Helvering v. Leonard, 2 Cir., 105 F.2d 900, handed down herewith, only in that the divorce was granted in Nevada, and the trust was in full discharge of the husband’s duty to support the wife. Under the law of Nevada a settlement of the kind here in question does not conclude the divorce court as to the wife’s allowance, but the allowance once made is final (Sweeney, v. Sweeney, 42 Nev. 431, 179 P. 638) unless the decree reserves power to the divorce court to modify it. Lewis v. Lewis, 53 Nev. 398, 2 P.2d *904131; Aseltine v. Second Judicial District Court, 57 Nev. 269, 62 P.2d 701. The decree of divorce contained no such reservation in the case at har, and the settlement was a final discharge. The income from the trust was therefore taxable only to the wife.

¶7Order reversed; deficiencies expunged.

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