TAXATION APPEAL
CHIEF JUSTICE’S DECISION (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Appeal Court to-day considered the case of the Commissioner of Stamps v. Olive Finch, an appeal from the judgment of the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, in Wellington. The case set forth that respondent’s husband had spent £1,982 just before his death in improving the family home and the commissioner claimed this was a gift to the wife. The Chief Justice held that as Finch died suddenly when he might have expected to live many years, the expenditure was justifiable and for the husband’s own benefit. From this decision the commissioner appealed*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 11
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128TAXATION APPEAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 11
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