PEOPLE v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COLORADO SPRINGS

No. 19059.

356 P.2d 967 (1960)

PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, ex rel. Duke W. DUNBAR, Attorney General, and Neil Tasher, Inheritance Tax Commissioner, Plaintiffs in Error, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COLORADO SPRINGS, Executor of the Estate of Francis Drexel Smith, Deceased, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Neil Tasher, Asst. Atty. Gen., & Inheritance Tax Commissioner, Floyd B. Engeman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiffs in error.

Haney & Howbert, Colorado Springs, for defendant in error.


FRANTZ, Justice.

Plaintiffs in error shall be referred to as the State and defendant in error as the Bank. The State suffered an adverse judgment relating to an inheritance tax assessment and seeks reversal by writ of error. It had filed a report of assessment based on values as of the date of death, refusing to revalue the assets of the estate based on the optional provisions of C.R.S. '53, 138-4-67, as requested by the Bank. The action of the State in this respect...

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