STERN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 12840.

242 F.2d 322 (1957)

Jean F. STERN, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Barton, Washington, D. C. (William H. Beck and William B. Martin, Lexington, Ky., on the brief), for petitioner.

Kenneth E. Levin, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Lee A. Jackson and A. F. Prescott, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

Jean F. Stern, petitioner, was the beneficiary of seventeen insurance policies, of the face amount of $60,255, on the life of her husband, Dr. Milton J. Stern, who died June 12, 1949. Dr. Stern, in the contracts of insurance, had reserved the right to change the beneficiary, as well as to draw the cash surrender value of the policies up to the time of his death. However, he never did draw any of the cash surrender values. Petitioner had...

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