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MAGOUN v. ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK

No. 464.

170 U.S. 283 (1898)

18 S.Ct. 594

42 L.Ed. 1037

MAGOUN, v. ILLINOIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 25, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William D. Guthrie and Mr. Benjamin Harrison for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Eugene E. Prussing was on their brief.

Mr. Edward C. Akin and Mr. Thomas A. Moran for defendants in error. Mr. Robert S. Iles and Mr. Frank L. Shepard were on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Legacy and inheritance taxes are not new in our laws. They have existed in Pennsylvania for over sixty years, and have been enacted in other States. They are not new in the laws of other countries. In State v. Alston, 94 Tennessee, 674, Judge Wilkes gave a short history of them as follows: "Such taxes were recognized by the Roman law. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman...

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