RONAN, J.
This is an appeal by the commissioner of corporations and taxation from a decree of the Probate Court entered upon a petition filed under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 65, § 27, by the executors under the will of Fred F. Swett, ordering an abatement of a legacy and succession tax assessed under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 65, § 1, as amended by St. 1941, c. 605, § 1.
In his will, allowed in 1944, the testator gave the proceeds...
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