BOWLES ESTATE

No. 11.

12 Pa. D. & C. 2d 539 (1957)

Bowles Estate

Common Pleas Court of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

July 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. L. McBride, for appellants.

Bernard Goldstone, for Commonwealth.


McKAY, J., July 15, 1957.

This matter involves an appeal by Wilson W. Bowles and Pansy S. Chapin from an assessment of inheritance tax in the estate of their deceased brother, Taylor Bowles. The register of wills assessed the tax at $471.66, whereas appellant claims the correct amount is $430.07.

Decedent died April 22, 1956, and by his will devised his real estate at Grove City to his wife, Mary Bowles, "free of tax". Paragraph II of the will reads: "I direct...

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