SCHLESINGER v. WISCONSIN

No. 146.

270 U.S. 230 (1926)

SCHLESINGER ET AL., EXECUTORS, ETC., v. WISCONSIN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles F. Fawsett, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Franklin E. Bump, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, with whom Mr. Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General, was on the brief, for defendants in error.


Mr. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Section 1087-1, Chapter 64ff, of the Wisconsin Statutes 1919, provides —

"A tax shall be and is hereby imposed upon any transfer of property, real, personal, or mixed . . . to any person . . . within the State, in the following cases, except as hereinafter provided:

"(1) When the transfer is by will or by the intestate laws of this State from...

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