PROUTT'S ESTATE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 8794.

125 F.2d 591 (1942)

PROUTT'S ESTATE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 7, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. S. Allen, of Memphis, Tenn. (J. Seddon Allen, John B. Snowden, II, Allan Davis, Armstrong, McCadden, Allen, Braden & Goodman, and Snowden & Davis, all of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for petitioner.

Paul S. McMahon, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and John J. Pringle, Jr., Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before SIMONS, ALLEN, and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

On this review of a deficiency estate tax assessment, upheld by the Board of Tax Appeals, we must decide whether $40,000 of a total amount of $50,249.08 accruing from eight policies of insurance taken out by a decedent upon his own life is exempt from inclusion in his gross estate under subsection (g) of Section 302 of the Revenue Act of 1926, as amended, 44 Stat. 9, U.S.C.A. Title 26, § 411, 26 U.S.C.A. Int. Rev. Code, § 811(g). The...

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