ESTATE OF STEWART


258 Wis. 211 (1951)

ESTATE OF STEWART: STATE, Appellant, vs. CHESTER, Special Administrator, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

January 9, 1951.

April 16, 1951.

May 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by the Attorney General, Harold H. Persons, assistant attorney general, and Neil Conway, inheritance tax counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Persons and Mr. Conway.

For the respondent there was a brief by Frederic Sammond and Jerome Klos, attorneys, and Miller, Mack & Fairchild of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Sammond.


FRITZ, C. J.

In this case the following facts were stipulated by the parties and found by the county court. Mary E. Stewart, a resident of the District of Columbia, died on October 16, 1947. On the date of her death there were included in her estate certain shares of stock of corporations organized under the laws of Wisconsin. The certificates evidencing the shares were at all times material here retained by the deceased with other securities at her domicile. She...

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