ESTATE OF JENNINGS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 6471.

10 T.C. 323 (1948)

ESTATE OF NELLIE H. JENNINGS, HAMILTON NATIONAL BANK OF KNOXVILLE, EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated February 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. W. Egerton, Esq., William W. Davis, Esq., and S. F. Fowler, Esq., for the petitioner.

S. Earl Heilman, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves an estate tax deficiency of $38,865.43. In determining the deficiency the respondent disallowed, as a charitable bequest, a claimed deduction from the gross estate of $218,192.63 representing the value of the remainder interest in decedent's residuary estate, after a life estate in her surviving husband, which she bequeathed to recognized charities, with the power in the trustee to use as much of the principal as necessary for her husband's care and...

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