SHEFNER v. KNOX

Civ. No. 4738.

131 F.Supp. 936 (1955)

Joseph SHEFNER and S. Harry Gainsley, Trustee and Transferees, Plaintiffs, v. A. R. KNOX, Director of Internal Revenue, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

June 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Shefner, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiff.

James Q. Riordan, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.


DEVITT, District Judge.

This is an action by taxpayers to recover for gift taxes paid to the government pursuant to an adverse ruling of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Plaintiffs contend that they were entitled to certain exclusions in the computation of their gift tax returns for the year 1949. The government asserts that petitioners were not entitled to exclusions because the trust agreement in question and upon which the controversy rests, created future...

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