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PEOPLE v. FESTER

No. 19056.

356 P.2d 130 (1960)

PEOPLE of the State of Colorado ex rel. Duke W. DUNBAR, Attorney General and Neil Tasher, Inheritance Tax Commissioner, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Dale A. FESTER, Administrator of the Estate of Mabel Grace Fester, and Sigvald Sorenson, Objector, Defendants In Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, In Department.

October 24, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

George S. Fuller, Denver, for defendants in error.

SUTTON, Chief Justice.

This action involves the assessment of inheritance tax with respect to a joint tenancy bank account in which the Inheritance Tax Commissioner was plaintiff and defendants in error were objectors.

The facts are not in dispute. At some time prior to her death in May of 1958 Mable Grace Fester, desiring to provide for the welfare of her son Dale A. Fester, entered into an oral agreement with a trusted friend, Sigvald Sorenson, under the...

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