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MERCER ESTATE

402 Pa. 495 (1960)

Mercer Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 4, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Craven, with him Kenneth W. Gemmill, Henry M. Koch, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers and Rhoads, and McGavin, DeSantis & Koch, for appellants.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him John D. Rively, Assistant Attorney General, and Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, January 4, 1961:

Appellants, executors of the Estate of Mary Whitner Mercer, complain of a decree of the Orphans' Court of Berks County which dismissed their appeal from the transfer inheritance tax appraisement of 3% noncumulative second preferred stock belonging to the decedent at its par value of $100 a share.

The Act of June 20, 1919, P.L. 521, as amended, 72 PS § 2301 et seq...

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