Wistar v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Full title: R.W. WISTAR, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent…

Court: Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Jun 9, 1930

42 F.2d 192 (2d Cir. 1930)

Opinion

Nos. 274, 275.

June 9, 1930.

Appeal from the United States Board of Tax Appeals.

Petitions to review decisions of the Board of Tax Appeals fixing the income taxes of the petitioners.

Donald Horne, of Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

G.A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen. (C.M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John Mc. C. Hudson, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondent.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The petitioners are alleged to be inhabitants, Wistar, of New Jersey, and Underhill, of Pennsylvania. There are no stipulations in the records that the petitions shall be heard by this court. That would, however, make no difference, since we have held in Massachusetts Fire Marine Ins. Co. v. Commissioner, 42 F.2d 189, handed down June 9, 1930, that section 1225(d) of title 26, U.S. Code (26 USCA § 1225(d), does not allow the parties to choose the venue of such cases at their pleasure in any Circuit Court of Appeals. On the authority of that decision, the petitions are dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Petitions dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.