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PICKERING ESTATE

410 Pa. 638 (1963)

Pickering Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin Stander, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him Robert W. Valimont, Special Assistant Attorney General, Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, and David Stahl, Attorney General, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Revenue, appellant.

Hale Pratt, with him Vanartsdalen & Pratt, for appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, April 16, 1963:

H. Russell Pickering died on December 7, 1955 leaving a Last Will dated August 7, 1953. Testator provided in ITEM 1:

"I direct that my Executor pay all my just debts and funeral expenses as soon as possible after my decease; and that the same together with all Transfer Inheritance Taxes, Federal Estate Taxes and other taxes be paid from my residuary estate,* . . ."

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