[DOWNLOAD] "Pitts v. Hamrick" by United States Court of Appeals * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pitts v. Hamrick
- Author : United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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This is an appeal in an estate tax case involving the computation of the marital deduction allowed by the Revenue Act of 1948, 26 U.S.C. § 812(e). The estate involved is that of Lyman A. Hamrick, a resident of Cherokee County, South Carolina, who died intestate in the year 1950, leaving a widow and two children and an estate of $1,139,335.15. The probate court of Cherokee County, South Carolina, a court of record having jurisdiction of the estate and its distribution, entered a decree in the year 1951 for the distribution of the estate, holding among other things that the widow was entitled to receive her share of the estate undiminished by any portion of the federal estate tax. The administrators made return and paid the estate tax in accordance with this holding.The Commissioner of Internal Revenue held that this was erroneous and that the marital deduction should have been diminished by the amount of the estate tax which he contended was attributable to the widows share of the estate. This resulted in a deficiency assessment of $26,220.91 with interest against the administrators, who paid it to the Director and brought suit for its recovery. The District Judge allowed the recovery, holding that under the applicable law the federal estate tax should not have been deducted from the estate of the widow in computing the marital deduction and also that the decree of the probate court of Cherokee County was binding on all parties as to the share of the estate which the widow was entitled to receive under state law. From judgment in accordance with this holding the United States has appealed.