Case Name: Bertha H. SAENGER, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1934-03-10
Citations: 69 F.2d 633
Docket Number: No. 7147
Parties: Bertha H. SAENGER, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 69
Pages: 633–633

Head Matter:
Bertha H. SAENGER, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.
No. 7147.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
March 10, 1934.
S. L. Herold, of Shreveport, La., for petitioner.
Prank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Se-wall Key and Norman D. Keller, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and E. Barrett Prettyman, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Hartford Allen, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and HUTCH-ESON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
The denial of A. D. Saengesr's petition (C. C. A.) 69 F. (2d) 631, denies Mrs. Saen-ger's too. Co-owners of the income earned, they are co-payers of the tax on it.
Unlike in Earl's Case, 281 U. S. Ill, 50 S. Ct. 241, 74 L. Ed. 731, husband and wile here are joint, not separate, earners. Together they are the tree. They share its fruits and the burdens of that sharing. Bender v. Pfaff, 282 U. S. 127, 51 S. Ct. 64, 75 L. Ed. 252.
The petition is denied.