FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civil Action No. 1621.

43 F.Supp. 731 (1942)

FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Moore and Clement J. Clarke, Jr., of Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Schoch, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew D. Sharpe and W. O. Hammonds, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., and Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


BARD, District Judge.

This is an action for refund of estate tax paid by the plaintiff as executor of the estate of Lenore M. Griswold. The refund sought represents the amount of tax paid on the value of the corpus of a trust created in 1905 by the husband of Lenore M. Griswold and granting to her a life estate and a general testamentary power of appointment, with gift in default to her issue. In her will decedent exercised the power in favor of her only child, Roger...

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