ESTATE OF JACK v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 6530.

6 T.C. 241 (1946)

ESTATE OF EDWIN E. JACK, GEORGE M. NAY AND FRANCIS P. DENNY, EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated February 21, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver A. Wyman, Esq., and Edward Hyde Earle, Esq., for the petitioners.

Carl A. Stutsman, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner has determined a deficiency of $17,016.75 in estate tax. The petitioners contend that there has been an overpayment in the amount of $36,692.02. The taxable year is 1942.

The sole issue is whether the taxpayer is entitled to a deduction from gross estate for residual charitable bequests under section 812 (d), Internal Revenue Code, where the will provided that the principal of the trust, which was subject to a life estate in decedent's widow, could...

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