DEAN ESTATE


363 Pa. 401 (1949)

Dean Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.C. Brandt, Special Deputy Attorney General, with him Robert M. Mountenay, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Randolph C. Ryder, Deputy Attorney General, George W. Keitel, Deputy Attorney General and T. McKeen Chidsey, Attorney General, for appellant.

Paul C. Ruffennach, for appellee.

Before MAXEY, C.J., DREW, LINN, STERN, PATTERSON, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE PATTERSON, November 14, 1949:

This appeal is from a decree of the Orphans' Court of Allegheny County sustaining an appeal from the appraisement of the property of Anna T. Dean, deceased, for transfer inheritance tax purposes, under the Act of June 20, 1919, P.L. 521, as amended, 72 PS 2301 et seq.

The appraisement included four savings accounts standing in decedent's name, totaling $33,606.94, which were claimed by decedent's son and...

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