FLEMING v. YOKE

Civ. No. 31-F.

53 F.Supp. 552 (1944)

FLEMING v. YOKE.

District Court, N. D. West Virginia.

January 11, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tusca Morris, of Fairmont, W. Va., and Elden McFarland, of Washington, D. C. (Ike Lanier, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for plaintiff.

Joe V. Gibson, U. S. Atty., of Kingwood, W. Va., C. Brooks Deveny, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Fairmont, W. Va., John W. Fisher, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Andrew D. Sharpe, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendant.


HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.

Where decedent and his wife entered into a separation agreement whereby decedent agreed to pay his wife $8,000 per year during her life or until her remarriage, in which event such payments should be reduced to $4,000, and such agreement was thereafter approved and adopted by a Nevada court in a decree of divorce, was the wife's claim against the decedent's estate for such payments an allowable deduction in computing the estate tax...

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