McCoach v. Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins Co.
Decision Date | 26 December 1905 |
Docket Number | 9,10,11. |
Citation | 142 F. 120 |
Parties | McCOACH, Collector of Internal Revenue, v. PHILADELPHIA TRUST, SAFE DEPOSIT & INS. CO. et al. (two cases). SAME v. NORRIS et al. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Third Circuit |
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
For opinion below, see 135 F. 866. See, also, 127 F. 386.
INTERNAL REVENUE-- LEGACY TAXES-- EFFECT OF REPEAL OF STATUTE.
Legacy taxes, under War Revenue Act June 13, 1898, c. 448, Secs. 29 30, 30 Stat. 464, 465, as amended by Act March 2, 1901, c 806, Secs. 10, 11, 31 Stat. 946, 948 (U.S. Comp. St. 1901 pp. 2307, 2308), which were made due and payable one year after the death of the testator, are not collectible on the estates of persons who died within one year prior to July 1 1902, at which time the repeal of said section 29 took effect (32 Stat. 97 (U.S. Comp. St. Supp. 1905, p. 446)).
Jasper Yeates Brinton and J. Whitaker Thompson, for plaintiff in error.
H. G. McCouch, for defendants in error.
Before ACHESON, DALLAS, and GRAY, Circuit Judges.
In each of these cases the plaintiff in error was the defendant below, and in each of them, upon his demurrer to the statement of claim, the Circuit Court entered judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, and thereupon these writs of error were sued out.
The opinion delivered by the learned judge is as follows:
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