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186 F.2d 49

Docket No. 12520.

Parker v. Westover

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Dec. 18, 1950.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1950-12-18

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1957

6 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Culbertson · Commissioner v. Tower · Lusthaus v. Commissioner

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1950-12-18

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¶1*50Melvin D. Wilson, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

¶2Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, A. F. Prescott and James P. Garland, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., E. H. Mitchell, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Eugene Harpole, Sp. Asst., Bureau of Internal Revenue, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

¶3Before STEPHENS, HEALY, and BONE, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This was a suit by appellants, who are husband and wife, to recover deficiencies in income taxes assessed against them by the Collector. The case involves a family partnership, consisting of appellants and their four children aged respectively 14, 11, 7, and 3. Completed gifts of an eighth interest in the partnership had been made to each of the children by the parents, and in the returns for the taxable year involved such fraction of the partnership income was ascribed to each child. The commissioner assessed the whole of the income to the parents.

¶6The case was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict against appellants. The chief claim for reversal, and the only one of possible merit, is that the court erred in refusing to give certain instructions requested by appellants. It is not seriously contended that the instructions given were erroneous, but only that they afforded the jury but one side of the picture. We have read the instructions carefully and have concluded that they adequately and fairly covered the law of the case as laid down by the Supreme Court in the three principal decisions of Commissioner v. Tower, 327 U.S. 280, 66 S.Ct. 532, 90 L.Ed. 670; Lust-haus v. Commissioner, 327 U.S. 293, 66 S.Ct. 539, 90 L.Ed. 679; and Commissioner v. Culbertson, 337 U.S. 733, 69 S.Ct. 1210, 93 L.Ed. 1659.

¶7The judgment is accordingly affirmed.

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