ESTATE OF CONNELL v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 33463.

20 T.C. 917 (1953)

ESTATE OF JOHN EDWARD CONNELL, ALMA C. GAFFNEY, FRANK E. CONNELL AND J. EMMETT CONNELL AS EXECUTRIX AND EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN EDWARD CONNELL, DECEASED, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated August 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ed. McClellan, Esq., for the petitioners.

Robert G. Harless, Esq., for the respondent.


The respondent determined an estate tax liability of $14,340.64. The issue presented for decision is whether respondent erred in disallowing deduction from the gross estate, as debts of the decedent, the amount represented by 20 notes executed by the decedent, payable to each of his 10 children, in the amount of $3,000 each and interest thereon. One other adjustment in the notice of deficiency was not assigned as error and is not contested by petitioners. The case was presented...

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