Washington Trust Bank v. United States

Full title: WASHINGTON TRUST BANK, as Trustee of the Endowment Care Fund of Greenwood…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Aug 13, 1971

444 F.2d 1235 (9th Cir. 1971)

Opinion

No. 25219.

July 7, 1971. Rehearing Denied August 13, 1971.

William Friedlander (argued), Atty. for Tax Div., Johnnie M. Walters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, John M. Kirk, Washington, D.C., Dean C. Smith, U.S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for appellant.

Eldon Reiley (argued), Myers, Reiley Annis, Spokane, Wash., for appellee.

Before CHAMBERS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, District Judge.^_

_ The Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin, District Judge for the District of Oregon, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

The district court, 301 F. Supp. 713, entered judgment granting a refund of capital-gain taxes paid by plaintiff, a trustee of an endowment fund established under Washington law to provide perpetual care for a profit-making cemetery.

The judgment is reversed, for the reasons stated in Evergreen Cemetery Association of Seattle v. United States of America, 444 F.2d 1232 (9th Cir. 1971).

The difference between a trustee (this case) and a nonprofit corporation (Evergreen Cemetery case) has no bearing upon tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code of 1954, § 501(c) (13).