ESTATE OF FROTHINGHAM v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 5605-71.

60 T.C. 211 (1973)

ESTATE OF C(HARLES) MIFFLIN FROTHINGHAM, DECEASED, GELSEY TAYLOR FROTHINGHAM, EXECUTRIX, PETITIONER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed May 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald William Suchma, for the petitioner.

Justin S. Holden, for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a $103,046.62 deficiency in the estate tax of the Estate of C(harles) Mifflin Frothingham. As part of a compromise of a will contest the decedent acquired a general power of appointment in respect of a property interest valued at $856,330.01 as of the date of his own death. He exercised that power by will without receiving any consideration, and the property subject to it was includable in his gross estate under section 2041 of the 1954 Code, unless...

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