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WILSON ESTATE

363 Pa. 546 (1950)

Wilson Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 3, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Gilman Spencer, Special Deputy Attorney General, with him Arthur M. Cooper, Francis J. Gafford and George W. Keitel, Deputy Attorneys General and T. McKeen Chidsey, Attorney General, for appellant.

Robert E. Porter, with him Harold D. Greenwell, J. Montgomery Forster and Greenwell & Porter, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, January 3, 1950:

The Commonwealth has appealed from an assessment of transfer inheritance tax. The Orphans' Court of Philadelphia, two judges dissenting, sustained exceptions to the appraisement by the register of wills. There was allowed as an exempted deduction the balance due by decedent to a bank on his note, secured by collateral consisting, inter alia, of assigned life insurance policies. The policies were on the life...

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