ESTATE OF RICKENBERG v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 11494.

11 T.C. 1 (1948)

ESTATE OF EDWIN W. RICKENBERG, DECEASED, LORAINE T. RICKENBERG, EXECUTRIX, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated July 7, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Munz, Jr., Esq., and Sidney R. Reed for the petitioner.

A. J. Hurley, Esq., for the respondent.


This case involves estate tax. A deficiency was determined in the amount of $40,548.81. The questions presented, after abandonment of some minor issues, are (a) whether an agreement between the decedent and his wife on December 2, 1942, dividing their property into tenancy in common, was in contemplation of death within the meaning of section 811 (c) and (d) (5) of the Internal Revenue Code; (b) whether, if the agreement was in contemplation of death, it was made for adequate...

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