ESTATE OF LOW v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 112733.

2 T.C. 1114 (1943)

ESTATE OF BERTHA LOW, DECEASED, HENRY M. ORNE AND MORRISTOWN TRUST COMPANY, EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated December 13, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Murphy, Esq., T. Fergus Redmond, Esq., and Francis B. Hamlin, Esq., for the petitioners.

Conway Kitchen, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined a deficiency in estate tax in the amount of $572,530.08, based upon a number of adjustments, some of which are not in controversy here. The first question for determination is whether a trust created by decedent in her lifetime constituted a transfer in contemplation of death or a transfer intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after her death, within the meaning of section 811 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code. The second question is...

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