OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, April 22, 1952:
The Pennsylvania Proration Act of July 2, 1937, P.L. 2762, 20 PS 844, provides that the United States estate tax shall be equitably prorated "except in a case where a testator otherwise directs in his will." The single question is whether testatrix has so otherwise directed.
Corinne M. Wahr, the testatrix, by her will bequeathed a piano to a named legatee and $50,000 to a friend. The residue she directed...
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