Commentary on Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., as Executor of the Estate of Charlotte C. Wallace, v. United States

Date

2017

Citation

Mildred W. Robinson, Commentary on Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., as Executor of the Estate of Charlotte C. Wallace, v. United States, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, Cambridge University Press, 164–172 (2017).

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