MURPHY'S ESTATE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 1247-57.

191 F.Supp. 698 (1961)

ESTATE of Harriet Long MURPHY, Deceased, Zachariah Belcher, Jr., et al., Executors, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and John E. Manning, Former Collector of Internal Revenue, Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

March 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Nolan, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs.

Chester A. Weidenburner, U. S. Atty., by Charles H. Hoens, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J., Howard A. Heffron, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., James P. Garland, Jerome Fink, Daniel M. Dwyer, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

This is a suit for the refund of Federal estate taxes. The facts have been stipulated and are on file with the Court. The parties thereupon submitted the case to this Court for decision, filing briefs for that purpose.

On March 12, 1948, Harriet Long Murphy died, leaving a charitable remainder to Princeton University. Subsequently, in 1949, the tax on the estate was paid without a deduction being taken for the Princeton bequest...

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