PRICHARD v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 3-1115.

255 F.Supp. 552 (1966)

Mrs. Frankie Lou Smith PRICHARD, Independent Executrix of the Estate of Houston Smith, Jr., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

June 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Ray, Donald J. Hahn, Jr., Ross H. Hemphill, Curtis W. Meadows, Jr., Thomas W. Oliver, Dallas, Tex., McCulloch, Ray, Trotti & Hemphill, Dallas, Tex., of counsel, for plaintiff.

Richard M. Roberts, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stanley F. Krysa, Robert L. Waters, Edward A. Copley, Jan Tyler, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Fort Worth, Tex., Melvin M. Diggs, U S. Atty., Martha Joe Stroud, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for defendant.


HUGHES, District Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. This is an action for the recovery of federal estate taxes and interest paid by plaintiff as independent executrix of the Estate of Houston Smith, Jr., who died on July 2, 1960.

2. In 1957, the decedent, who was a building contractor, decided to build a shopping center in Odessa, Texas. In an effort to obtain permanent financing of the shopping center, decedent...

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