BLACKBURNE v. BROWN

No. 14500.

35 F.2d 963 (1929)

BLACKBURNE et al. v. BROWN.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 29, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White, Parry, Schnader & Maris, of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Calvin S. Boyer, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is an action at law to recover a portion of an inheritance tax paid under protest. It is now before the court upon an affidavit of defense in the nature of a demurrer. The question involved is whether or not certain property passing, at the death of the decedent, under a power of appointment exercised by the decedent in his will was properly included in the statutory gross estate of the decedent for tax purposes.

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