Opinion
No. 26085.
May 17, 1972.
Richard M. Roberts (argued), Meyer Rothwacks, Crombie J. D. Garrett, Benjamin M. Parker, Attys., Johnnie M. Walters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., James L. Browning, Jr., U.S. Atty., Gary K. Shelton, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
Robert R. Wood (argued), of Athern, Chandler Hoffman, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Before CARTER, WRIGHT and TRASK, Circuit Judges.
This appeal is from a district court judgment adverse to the United States in a federal estate tax refund case. The question for decision is whether Series E United States Savings Bonds, purchased by the decedent in her own name and that of a co-owner, are taxable in her estate, where she had delivered them to the co-owner prior to her death with the intention of making an irrevocable inter vivos gift of them, but they had been neither redeemed or reissued by the co-owner prior to the death of the decedent.
For the reasons set out in the opinion of Judge Sweigert in 312 F. Supp. 1263 (N.D.Cal. 1970), we hold that the bonds are not taxable in the estate of the decedent and affirm the judgment.