HARRIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK v. UNITED STATES

No. 43188.

29 F.Supp. 876 (1939)

HARRIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

November 6, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert H. Veeder, of Chicago, Ill. (Francis E. Baldwin and Henry Veeder, both of Chicago, Ill., on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

J. H. Sheppard, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the briefs), for the United States.

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


WHITAKER, Judge.

The question here involved is whether or not a certain trust executed by the decedent on June 12, 1930, was executed in contemplation of death, in the sense that phrase is used in Section 302 (c) of the Revenue Act of 1926, 44 Stat. 70, 26 U.S. C.A. § 411(c).

On this date of June 12, 1930, the decedent executed an irrevocable trust to the Chicago Title and Trust Company, as trustee, providing for the transfer to it, in trust, of municipal...

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