Court Opinion

ID: 9457047
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:10:54.160149+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:11.915269
License: Public Domain

NICHOLS, Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result. I deem it futile and irrelevant to ask whether the donee “accepted” the legal services here involved. If it is done at all, to do the job right we should inquire whether the donee “accepted” the services rendered under each of several bills, in different tribunals, including appearances in court, before the D. C. Commissioners, and apparently, lobbying in Congress. Rather, I would hold, if donor has made, and donee has accepted, an unquestionable charitable donation, donor has a right to further deductions for any subsequent ancillary expenses deemed necessary to prevent donee from diverting the gift to purposes other than those donor intended, and this is true whether donee is a public body or a private charity.