ESTATE OF HEIDT v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 5802.

8 T.C. 969 (1947)

ESTATE OF JOSEPH H. HEIDT, DECEASED, LOUISE SEELEY, EXECUTRIX, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated May 6, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph W. Smith, Esq., and John Moore Robinson, Esq., for the petitioner.

H. A. Melville, Esq., for the respondent.


This case involves a deficiency in Federal estate tax determined by the respondent in the amount of $16,435.01. The case was submitted on documentary evidence and oral testimony.

The question presented is whether decedent's wife, as surviving joint tenant with decedent, in a community property state, made any contributions to the property jointly owned at the time of decedent's death, which contributions should be excluded from the gross estate of the decedent under...

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