LARAMORE, Judge.
This is a suit for the refund of $20,863.74 in estate tax paid by the plaintiff as executor of the estate of Margaret Stewart Verckler. Claim is made under the provisions of Public Law 417, 84th Congress, 2d Session, 70 Stat. 26, approved February 20, 1956, retroactively amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 by adding new section 814, 26 U.S. C.A. § 814, which provided in pertinent part as follows:
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