KERNER, Circuit Judge.
We are asked to decide whether an Illinois decedent's gross estate, for federal estate tax purposes, should include the value of the widow's dower and her statutory one-third interest in the personalty.
Plaintiffs as testamentary trustees sued the Collector for the recovery of an alleged overpayment of estate taxes, after the Commissioner had rejected their refund claim premised upon the theory that the...
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