McCORMICK v. BURNET

No. 542.

283 U.S. 784 (1931)

McCORMICK ET AL., EXECUTORS, v. BURNET, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George T. Rogers, with whom Messrs. Horace Kent Tenney, Henry F. Tenney, Roger Sherman, and Robert N. Miller were on the brief, for petitioners. Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, and Messrs. Sewall Key and J. Louis Monarch, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, Erwin N. Griswold and Clarence M. Charest, General Counsel, and Prew Savoy, Special Attorney, Bureau of Internal Revenue, were on the brief, for respondent.


Per Curiam.

The question in this case is that of the construction of § 402 (c) of the Revenue Act of 1921, c. 136, 42 Stat. 227, 278, a provision similar to that of § 402 (c) of the Revenue Act of 1918, c. 18, 40 Stat. 1057, 1097, which has already been construed by this Court, and, in this view, there being no question of the constitutional authority of the Congress to impose prospectively a tax with respect to transfers or trusts of the sort here involved...

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