ESTATE OF MORROW v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 36554.

19 T.C. 1068 (1953)

ESTATE OF JOHN C. MORROW, DECEASED, MELLON NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY AND MILDRED MORROW McBRIDE, EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated March 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney B. Gambill, Esq., for the petitioner.

George C. Lea, Esq., for the respondent.


OPINION.

MURDOCK, Judge:

The Commissioner determined a deficiency of $724.64 in estate tax. The only issue for decision is whether $5,000 paid to the daughter of the deceased by his former employer was a part of the decedent's gross estate. The facts have been presented by a stipulation which is adopted as the findings of fact.

The decedent died on May 26, 1947, while residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The estate tax return was filed with...

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