STRUNK ESTATE


369 Pa. 478 (1952)

Strunk Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 24, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Balmer, with him Aaron A. Brumbach and Snyder, Balmer & Kershner, for appellants.

Francis J. Gafford, Deputy Attorney General, with him Frederick J. Bertolet and Robert E. Woodside, Attorney General, for appellee.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE HORACE STERN, March 24, 1952:

The testator, in 1935, bequeathed an interest in remainder to children of his adopted child. Was the legacy subject to Pennsylvania transfer inheritance tax at the rate of two per cent or at the rate of ten per cent? From the decision of the court below that the Commonwealth was entitled to the ten per cent tax the legatees appeal.

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