REGISTER OF WILLS v. BLACKWAY

[No. 193, September Term, 1957.]

217 Md. 1 (1958)

141 A.2d 713

REGISTER OF WILLS FOR KENT COUNTY v. BLACKWAY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 20, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Reeves, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellant.

Preston P. Heck for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff-appellee by the Circuit Court for Kent County. It involves primarily a question of inheritance tax liability under Art. 81, Sec. 150 of the 1951 Code, Sec. 151 of the 1957 Code. The Circuit Court held the transfer of property here involved exempt from the tax. The facts out of which this litigation arose are stated in the opinion of Judge...

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