Wallace v. United States

309 F. Supp. 748, 25 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 592, 1970 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12945
CourtDistrict Court, S.D. Iowa
DecidedFebruary 5, 1970
DocketCiv. 8-2117-C-2
StatusPublished
Cited by6 cases

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Wallace v. United States, 309 F. Supp. 748, 25 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 592, 1970 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12945 (S.D. Iowa 1970).

Opinion

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HANSON, District Judge.

This case came before the Court for trial without a jury. Neither party cf. fered any testimony. The evidence consisted of stipulations of facts and documents, and party-admissions:

JURISDICTIONAL FACTS

1. On March 6, 1964, plaintiffs 1 duly filed their Federal Income tax return for the calendar year 1963 with the District Director of Internal Revenue at Des Moines, Iowa. Plaintiffs at the time of filing this return paid in full the tax shown by the return to be due in the amount of Thirteen Thousand Dollars and Eighty Cents ($13,000.80) (Tr. 12-13).

2. A deficiency for the 1963 taxable year in the amount of $47,250.30 was subsequently assessed and was paid on February 16, 1967, along with interest of $8,032.56, a total of $55,282.86 (Tr. 13).

3. Plaintiffs filed a timely claim for refund for the taxable calendar year 1963 on March 31,1967, with the District Director of Internal Revenue at Des Moines, Iowa (Pltf. Ex. E; Tr. 13.

4. More than six months elapsed between filing the claim for refund and institution of this suit.

5. This Court has jurisdiction pursuant to Title 28, U.S.C. Section 1346(a) (D.

FINDINGS OF FACT

6. Henry B. and Florence Wallace were married on August 11, 1939 in Des Moines, Iowa. In November of 1962 Florence Wallace initiated divorce proceeding in Polk County, Iowa District Court against Henry B. Wallace (Tr. 12). Immediately thereafter the Court entered the following Restraining Order in the divorce action. (Pltf. Ex. C) :

Now on this 9th day of November, 1962, upon reading the Petition of the Plaintiff in this cause and being advised in the premises the Court finds that the following Order should issue.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that during the pendency of this action the Defendant be and he is hereby restrained from disposing of any personal property of the Plaintiff or the Defendant or of the children of the Plaintiff and Defendant except Defendant shall be permitted to expend reasonable amounts from his own funds for the purpose of his own usual and ordinary maintenance.

*751 7. In April, 1963 Florence K. Wallace filed with the Polk County District Court in the divorce action an Application For Order Re Improvement of Family Dwelling (Pltf. Ex. D) alleging that heating facilities were inadequate to properly heat the first floor of the house, the heating system having only 57% of the needed capacity at the furnace and the distribution system also being inadequate. Mrs. Wallace claimed she had received medical advice to the effect that a new heating system along with air conditioning and an electro-static type filter were necessary to give some relief to her son who was suffering from asthma.

8. Joel D. Teigland, M.D. has stated in writing (Pltf. Ex. F):

Henry D. Wallace has been a patient' since 1962 with severe asthma, rhinitis and allergic skin rash. Because of the continued asthma symptoms, all efforts have been made to control him with medication and desensitization.
To further avoid exposure, I recommend centralair conditioning and electrostatic filter in their home. With the above, his condition is definitely improved.

9. Plaintiffs claim a medical deduction of $3,946.12, a portion .of the total cost of $4,946.12 which was expended for a new furnace, duct work, registers, central air-conditioning unit, humidity control unit, electric air filter and the related electric wiring in the home occupied by Henry Wallace’s former wife Florence. The break-down of the total cost is as follows:

furnace, runs and registers $1,991.74
labor on above 450.00
air-conditioning unit 1,182.95
humidity control unit 106.00
electrostatic air filter 555.60
labor on above 350.00
related electrical wiring 309.83
TOTAL $4,946.12

10. The record contains no evidence with respect to whether or not the fair market value of the home occupied by the former wife of Henry B. Wallace increased as the result óf installation of central air-conditioning and an electrostatic filter.

'll. On October 29, 1963 Florence K. Wallace and Henry B. Wallace executed a Stipulation of certain property rights which states in pertinent part (Pltf. Ex. B):

In the event that upon the trial of the above-entitled cause a divorce is granted by the Court dissolving the marriage between the parties hereto, the parties desire to settle all property rights of the parties except as otherwise expressly provided herein and alimony, custody and support payments in connection with and incident to the divorce if the same be granted and subject to the approval and decree of the -Court.
Now, therefore, in consideration of the covenants and agreements hereinafter contained, it is mutually stipulated and agreed by and between the plaintiff and the defendant as follows :
1. The plaintiff is to retain as her own property all of the interest of plaintiff in any real estate located in Jasper County, Iowa.
2. The defendant shall convey to the plaintiff by good and sufficient warranty deed, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances including all regular and special taxes due and payable in 1963, the real estate locally known as 147 Tonawanda Drive, Des Moines, Iowa, and legally described as:
Lot One (1) of Gardner Cowles Woods, Plat 2, an. official Plat, now included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and the North Ten (10) feet of the West One Hundred Forty-one and eight-tenths (141.8) feet of Lot Five (5) of Gardner Cowles Woods, an Official Plat, now included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and the South Two and One-half (2y2) feet, more or less, of the North Six and One- *752 half (6%) feet of Lot Seventy-six (76) paralleling the North line of said Lot Seventy-six (76), of Brown’s Subdivision of Lots Eleven (11), Fourteen (14), and Fifteen (15) in Brown’s Woods, Section Seven (7), Township Seventy-eight (78) Range Twenty-four (24), all in and now a part of the City of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.
3. The- defendant shall pay to the plaintiff in cash the sum of $7,700.74, and in addition the defendant shall pay the Butcher Furnace Company bill of $4,636.29, plus the electrical work of Ace Heating and Electric Company of $309.83.
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