BANKERS TRUST CO. v. BLODGETT

No. 169.

260 U.S. 647 (1923)

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY ET AL., EXECUTORS OF McMULLEN, v. BLODGETT, TAX COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 22, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William H. Comley for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Frank E. Healy, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Mr. William E. Egan and Mr. Carlos S. Holcomb appeared for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

By § 1190 of the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut, 1918, passed in 1915, it is provided that "All taxable property of any estate upon which no town or city tax has been assessed .. . or upon which no tax has been paid to the state during the year preceding the date of the death of the decedent, shall be liable to a tax of two per centum per annum on...

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