Ruth W. Dyer, Benjamin W. Dyer, Jr., Daniel L. Dyer, Leonard Francis Daidone, William Harry Vanderveer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

233 F.2d 175, 49 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 1191, 1956 U.S. App. LEXIS 5120

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Decided: May 2, 1956
• Docket: 23201-23205_1
• Status: Published

Opinion

233 F.2d 175

Ruth W. DYER, Benjamin W. Dyer, Jr., Daniel L. Dyer, Leonard Francis Daidone, William Harry Vanderveer, Petitioners,
v.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

Nos. 89-93.

Dockets 23201-23205.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Argued April 11, 1956.

Decided May 2, 1956.

Arthur K. Mason, Washington, D. C. (Alger B. Chapman and Walter W. Walsh, New York City, on the brief), for petitioners.

I. Henry Kutz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee A. Jackson and Coleman J. Lesser, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and HINCKS and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The issues of additional assessments of income taxes here involved turned upon the validity of family partnerships or joint ventures attempted to be created by the parties; we reversed such assessments and remanded the proceedings in Dyer v. C. I. R., 2 Cir., 211 F.2d 500, 506, for absence of an explicit finding of a "lack of a good faith intention" on the part of the several women involved to join in the present conduct of the enterprise. On remand the Tax Court did make just that finding as to each of the five women involved in the five cases, and there is now no doubt as to the validity of the assessments. We did not require the trial judge to take further evidence, and his subordinate findings show that he has always known which of the governing agreements the ladies had failed to read. Thus he was in no manner misled by any confusion in reference thereto in our opinions, and his findings are far from clearly erroneous.

Affirmed.