McWilliams v. Commissioner

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1947-06-16

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Mr. Chief Justice Vinson delivered the opinion of the Court. The facts of these cases are not in dispute. John P. McWilliams, petitioner in No. 945, had for a number of years managed the large independent estate of his wife, petitioner in No. 947, as well as his own. On several occasions in 1940 and 1941 he ordered his broker to sell certain stock for the acco…

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