HANSEN v. VINAL

No. 19352.

413 F.2d 882 (1969)

Neta May HANSEN, Executrix of the Estate of Otto H. Hansen, Deceased, Appellant, v. Richard P. VINAL, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar R. Geesaman, of Fitzgerald, Brown, Leahy, McGill & Strom, Omaha, Neb., for appellant.

Chester C. Davenport, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, D. C., for appellee; Mitchell Rogovin, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee A. Jackson and Robert N. Anderson, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, D. C., and Theodore L. Richling, U. S. Atty., Omaha, Neb., on the brief.

Before GIBSON, LAY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the District Court erred in holding that the decedent's estate failed to qualify for the marital deduction allowed by Section 2056, Internal Revenue Code, 1954, because the property interest passing from decedent to his wife was a terminable interest.

The case was tried to the court upon an agreed stipulation of facts and exhibits summarized by the trial court as follows:

"Otto H. Hansen...

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