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KEENEY v. NEW YORK

No. 81.

222 U.S. 525 (1912)

KEENEY, AS ADMINISTRATOR, v. COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 9, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George F. Canfield, with whom Mr. Karl T. Frederick was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. William Law Stout for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

So much of the New York statute, as imposes an inheritance tax, was sustained in Plummer v. Coler, 178 U.S. 115, and in several decisions of the Court of Appeals of that State. But the plaintiffs insist that there is a radical difference between an inheritance tax and one on transfers...

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