Burnet v. Whitcomb

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued March 13, 1933.

Decided May 22, 1933.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1933-05-22

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Decided 1933-05-22

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1968

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¶1G. A. Youngquist, Sewall Key, C. M. Charest, and John D. Foley, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

¶2Claude R. Branch, of Boston, Mass., and W. W. Spalding, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

¶3Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.

¶4MARTIN, Chief Justice.

¶5The issues in this appeal are controlled by the same principles as those in Burnet v. Whitcomb, 62 App. D. C. 170, 65 F.(2d) 803, which is concurrently decided by us.

¶6The decision of the Board of Tax Appeals is accordingly reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent herewith.

¶7GRONER, Associate Justice, dissents.