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SHAUGHNESSY v. LINGUISTIC SOCIETY

[No. 27, October Term, 1951.]

198 Md. 446 (1951)

84 A.2d 68

SHAUGHNESSY, REGISTER OF WILLS v. LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 7, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward B. Coe, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Hall Hammond, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

Frederick J. Green, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, with whom was Bernard J. Flynn, United States Attorney, on the brief, for the Attorney General of the United States, appellee.

John Phelps for Linguistic Society of America, appellee.

Charles F. Stein for the executors, appellees.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.

DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal brings to us the question whether a devise of real estate in Baltimore and also certain bequests given by Mrs. Klara H. Collitz, deceased, to the Linguistic Society of America are exempt from the Maryland collateral inheritance tax. Code Supp. 1947, art. 81, sec. 110.

Mrs. Collitz, a philologist, by her will made in 1937, bequeathed to the Linguistic Society, of which she was a member, the library...

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