IN RE RACKHAM'S ESTATE

Docket No. 21, Calendar No. 44,752.

329 Mich. 493 (1951)

45 N.W.2d 273

In re RACKHAM'S ESTATE. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur W. Eckman, John R. Peterson, and Harry S. Toy, for petitioners.

Arthur J. Lacy, for Detroit Trust Company and administrators of Rackham estate.

Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, T. Carl Holbrook, and Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistants Attorney General, for Department of Revenue.


BOYLES, J.

The sole question here is whether there is any State inheritance tax liability on account of the transfer of property by Mary A. Rackham to the Detroit Trust Company as trustee for 3 Christian Science associations. In the probate court for Wayne county, and again on appeal in the circuit court, orders were entered determining there was no inheritance tax owing to the State. The State department of revenue appeals...

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