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GOOD ESTATE

407 Pa. 642 (1962)

Good Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Edward J. Ozorowski, Special Assistant Attorney General, and David Stahl, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

David H.W. Dohan and Paul C. Wagner, with them Stanley B. Cooper, and Waters, Fleer, Cooper & Gallagher, and Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, and O'BRIEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, June 28, 1962:

The Commonwealth took this appeal from the Decree of the Orphans' Court which held that certain assets were not subject to transfer inheritance tax.

S. Davis Walton died on September 6, 1910, a resident of Philadelphia County. He left his residuary estate in trust to pay an annuity to his wife, Agnes W. Walton, if she remained his widow, with the balance of income to his daughter, Dorothea, upon certain trusts...

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