Plummer v. United States

GOODMAN, District Judge.

In this action, 'plaintiffs seek refund of estate taxes paid in the sum of $21,874.78 upon the ground that the Commissioner erroneously included in decedent Sanford Plummer’s statutory gross estate, the entire value of all property standing in his name 'at death'. (May 23, 1941.) The Commissioner’s alleged error, urged in a claim for refund, which was administratively denied, and reasserted here, is that such property was community property since September 17, 1939, (date of decedent’s last will) in which decedent’s wife had a present, vested and equal interest. The…