ESTATE OF WOODY v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 78817.

36 T.C. 900 (1961)

ESTATE OF CHARLES L. WOODY, DECEASED, CHARLES L. WOODY, JR., RHOMA WOODY GILBERT AND IRVING TRUST COMPANY, EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed August 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Watson, Esq., for the petitioners.

Norman L. Rapkin, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a deficiency in estate tax in the amount of $7,385.64. Petitioners claim a $5,318.70 overpayment.

The question presented is whether decedent's obligation to pay $14,000 to his daughter after his death, assumed in exchange for his daughter's release of his son from an indebtedness in a like amount, was "contracted bona fide and for an adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth" as is required for a deductible claim for estate...

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