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Glenview house is included in the taxable estate of Lucille M.
Horstmeier.
Background
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found. We
incorporate by this reference the stipulation of facts and the
attached exhibits. At the time the decedent, Lucille M.
Horstmeier (Ms. Horstmeier), died she resided in Glenview,
Illinois. At the time of filing the petition, the executor, Mary
E. Scott (Ms. Scott), resided in Palatine, Illinois.
Ms. Scott and Ms. Horstmeier lived together for almost 20
years before Ms. Horstmeier’s death in 1993. They had met in
December 1972 while Ms. Horstmeier was vacationing in Florida.
At that time, Ms. Horstmeier lived in Skokie, Illinois, with Mae
Glassbrenner, her business partner with whom she owned and
operated an accredited proprietary business college. Ms. Scott,
a Florida native, was a student at St. Petersburg Junior College
in that State. Ms. Scott was 19, and Ms. Horstmeier was 48, when
they met. Ms. Horstmeier and Ms. Scott’s relationship developed,
and in December 1973 or January 1974, they decided to live
together. In March 1974, Ms. Scott left Florida and moved to
Illinois with the intention of attending the University of
Illinois and living with Ms. Horstmeier.
Upon arriving in Illinois, Ms. Scott moved in with a niece
of Ms. Horstmeier. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Scott and Ms.
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