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WATROUS v. CONNELLY

141 Conn. 257 (1954)

CHARLES A. WATROUS ET AL. v. WILLIAM F. CONNELLY, TAX COMMISSIONER

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided May 12, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Lyman, with whom was Cleaveland J. Rice, Jr., for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Herman Levine, inheritance tax attorney, with whom, on the brief, were William L. Beers, attorney general, and Frederic W. Dauch, first assistant tax commissioner, for the appellee (defendant).

INGLIS, C. J., BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE and DALY, JS.

BALDWIN, J.

The plaintiffs are two of the three executors and two of the devisees and residuary legatees under the will of Bertha A. Watrous. They have appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court sustaining a decree of the Probate Court for the district of New Haven which approved, as computed by the defendant tax commissioner, the succession tax laid upon the estate of Bertha A. Watrous and ordered it to be paid. The crucial question is whether the amount of the...

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