ESTATE OF SHOWERS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 22098.

14 T.C. 902 (1950)

ESTATE OF E. A. SHOWERS, DECEASED, ELIZABETH MCEACHERN SCHERCK, THOMAS ELMORE MCEACHERN AND CHESTER WILLIAM SHOWERS, INDEPENDENT EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated May 23, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. B. Peddy, Esq., for the petitioners.

A. T. Akin, Esq., and Joseph P. Crowe, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a deficiency in estate tax in the amount of $655,653.30. The questions to be determined are whether the Commissioner erred in including in the value of the decedent's gross estate (1) an additional amount of $30,833.34 as insurance, and (2) the value of the properties of five trust estates in the aggregate amount of $1,014,628.56.

It is agreed by the parties that credits allowable for gift taxes and estate and inheritance taxes shall be...

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