RIGHTER v. UNITED STATES

No. 15478-2.

258 F.Supp. 763 (1966)

Richard S. RIGHTER, Executor of the Estate of Edna Beaham Mersereau, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, W. D.

September 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard A. Crawford and Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., of Lathrop, Righter, Gordon & Parker, Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Stephen Koplan, Tax Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and F. Russell Millin, U. S. Atty., Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

COLLINSON, District Judge.

This is a suit for refund of estate taxes and a gift tax which the plaintiff, in his capacity as executor, paid under protest. The factual situation from which the assessment of both taxes arose is identical, and the facts themselves are undisputed, although they were not stipulated at the trial.

The decedent, Mrs. Edna Mersereau, at the time of the transaction which gave rise to the dispute, was the...

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