WELLES v. SAUBER

No. 53 C 2471.

142 F.Supp. 449 (1956)

Edward K. WELLES and Elizabeth Scott Welles, Plaintiffs, v. Ernest J. SAUBER, Director of Internal Revenue, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 26, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Robert Tieken, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


SULLIVAN, District Judge.

This is an action by taxpayers to recover gift taxes paid by them for the years 1948, 1949, and 1950. Their claim is that the gifts, made under circumstances presently to be described, were of a present interest and so subject to the $3,000 exclusion granted gifts of such interests by Section 1003(b) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939. The government contends that the gifts were of a future interest, and the exclusion accordingly was...

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