BARTLETT v. UNITED STATES

No. 190-55.

146 F.Supp. 719 (1956)

Irving T. BARTLETT, as Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jessie I. Bartlett, Deceased, v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

December 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. Bentley, New York City, for plaintiff.

David R. Frazer, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Charles K. Rice, for defendant. Andrew D. Sharpe, Theodore M. Garver, and James P. Garland, Washington, D. C., on the briefs.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff claims that the estate of his mother, Jessie I. Bartlett, of which he is the executor, was required to pay a larger amount of estate taxes than it rightfully owed. He sues to recover the excess. The asserted excess of taxes was attributable to what the Government said was a "reversion" in a piece of real property, which reversion was said to have been owned by Jessie I. Bartlett at the time of her death. If she did own such a reversion...

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