FIRST UNION TRUST & SAVINGS BANK v. UNITED STATES

No. L-73.

5 F.Supp. 143 (1933)

FIRST UNION TRUST & SAVINGS BANK v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 4, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Hughes, of Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

John W. Hussey and Guy Patten, both of Washington, D. C., and Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Before BOOTH, Chief Justice, and GREEN, LITTLETON, WILLIAMS, and WHALEY, Judges.


WHALEY, Judge.

This suit was commenced by John F. Jelke for the recovery of $342,729.44 tax paid by him on a gift to his son, Frazier Jelke, November 3, 1924. The plaintiff departed this life after suit had been brought, and his administrator with will annexed was substituted as plaintiff.

John F. Jelke was the sole owner of a large and prosperous business in the city of Chicago. He had a wife and two sons. One of the sons (Frazier) lived in New York, and...

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