Little v. Little

StukEs, Justice.

The respondent, Mrs. Rila W. Little, is the mother of the other parties to this action. At the instance of still another son she consulted a tax accountant in December, 1942 who advised her that she might avoid or minimize inheritance taxes by making gifts to her children and the exemption that year was $4,000.00 to each child which he warned would be decreased to $3,000.00 the next year. From this advisor she went to the office of C. P. Laney, an attorney now deceased, and employed and instructed him to prepare several deeds to various of her children, including that in…