JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 75-2-002.

424 F.Supp. 236 (1976)

Kathryn B. JONES and Helen B. Smith, Co-Executrices under the Last Will and Testament of C. M. Baum, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Illinois.

September 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace E. Gunn, Gunn, Hickman, Kesler, Jenkins & Vogel, Danville, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Henry Schwarz, U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., Vicki G. Cheikes, Trial Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

WISE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs seek a refund of estate taxes and interest paid by them as co-executors of their father's estate. In dispute is one item, disallowed as a deduction from the gross estate by the Internal Revenue Service, consisting of a loan from the decedent's wife to the decedent. Plaintiffs assert that the deduction was valid, under 26 U.S.C. § 2053(c)(1)(A), as a debt "bona fide and for an adequate...

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