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GRANT ESTATE

377 Pa. 264 (1954)

Grant Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 24, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Gafford, Deputy Attorney General, with him H. Carl Brandt, Special Deputy Attorney General, Joseph M. Gelman, Counsel, and Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General, for appellant.

Fred Shoemaker, with him Shoemaker & Knoell, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, May 24, 1954:

The decedent, Talmage D. Grant, died at 11:55 A.M. on December 21, 1951. On that same day the Governor signed the bill increasing the collateral inheritance tax of 10% established by the Act of June 20, 1919, P.L. 521, to 15% (Act of December 21, 1951, P.L. 1713). It was not disclosed, and apparently cannot be ascertained, at what hour of the day the bill was signed...

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