Legal Opinion
Woods v. Paschall
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 1977PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BROCK, Justice.
This is an action by an executor to recover a portion, paid under protest, of inheritance taxes assessed. In 1955, William Thomas Paschall, reserving a life estate in an undivided one-sixth interest in a certain tract of land, by deed transferred the remainder together with the other five-sixths, to his son, John William Paschall. It was stipulated in the deed that the son was to pay to each of his five sisters the sum of $8,000.00. John William Paschall distributed $40,000.00 among his sisters before the death of his father and is now the owner of the land.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- English v. CrenshawTennessee Supreme Court · 1908
- American National Bank v. MacFarlandTennessee Supreme Court · 1961
- Henson v. MondayTennessee Supreme Court · 1920
- AMERICAN NAT. B. & T. CO. OF CHATTANOOGA v. MacFarlandTennessee Supreme Court · 1961
3Cited by3 opinions
- Estate of Joseph Owen Boote, Jr., Helen Boote Shivers and Linda Boote, Co-Executors v. Richard H. Roberts, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of RevenueCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2013
- Grantham v. State of Tennessee Board of EqualizationCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1991
- In re the Estate of YoungSupreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 1983