SKINNER'S ESTATE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 24564.

197 F.Supp. 726 (1961)

ESTATE of Maria M. Coxe SKINNER, Deceased, Neil McFee Skinner and Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank, Executors, Plaintiffs v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 18, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Hogeland, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lyle M. Turner, Jerome Fink, Marvin B. Haiken, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington 25, D.C., Walter E. Alessandroni, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


LAYTON, District Judge.

This is an action by the executors of an estate for the refund of federal estate taxes in the amount of $34,477.23, plus interest, alleged to have been illegally collected in connection with an estate tax return filed in 1954.

The relevant facts have been stipulated and are not in controversy. On March 5, 1936, Maria M. Coxe Skinner (the decedent herein) executed an irrevocable trust to conserve certain interests and property "for the...

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