ESTATE OF HUME v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 111770.

2 T.C.M. 113 (1943)

Estate of Mary A. Hume, Deceased, Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company and Priscilla E. Shand, Executors v. Commissioner.

United States Tax Court.

Entered May 20, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence C. Baker, Esq., for the petitioners. Thomas M. Mather, Esq., for the respondent.


Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion

SMITH, Judge:

This proceeding involves an estate tax deficiency of $16,260.15. The sole question for our determination is whether a bequest by decedent to trustees for charitable purposes of the remainder of her residuary estate, after a life estate to her niece, was a charitable bequest the value of which is deductible from gross income under section 812(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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