ESTATE OF PERRY v. C.I.R.

No. 90-4509 Summary Calendar.

927 F.2d 209 (1991)

ESTATE OF Frank Martin PERRY, Sr., Deceased, Michael C. Perry, Whit S. Perry and Robert S. Perry, Co-Executors, Petitioners-Appellees, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary R. Allen, Chief, John A. Dudeck, Jr., Robert S. Pomerance, Shirley D. Peterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Abraham N.M. Shashy, Jr., Chief Counsel, Washington, D.C., for respondent-appellant.

Hugh Cameron Montgomery, Jr., Charles L. Brocato, J. Lee Woodruff, Jr., Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for petitioners-appellees.

Before JOHNSON, SMITH and WIENER, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Respondent-Appellant, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (Commissioner) appeals from an adverse ruling by the United States Tax Court which held that proceeds of insurance on the life of Frank Martin Perry, Sr. (Decedent), paid directly to his grown sons as owners and beneficiaries of two insurance policies, were properly excludable from the estate of Decedent for federal estate tax purposes, even though Decedent had signed the application for...

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