Burnet v. Guggenheim

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1933-02-06

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Mr. Justice Cardozo delivered the opinion of the Court. The question to be decided is whether deeds of trust made in 1917, with a reservation to the grantor of a power of revocation, became taxable as gifts under the Revenue Act of 1924 when in 1925 there was a change of the deeds by the cancellation of the power. On June 28, 1917, t…

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