ESTATE OF STEVENS

Docket No. 22784.

163 Cal.App.2d 255 (1958)

329 P.2d 337

Estate of FLORENCE R. STEVENS, Deceased. ROBERT C. KIRKWOOD, as State Controller, etc., Appellant, v. D.Z. ALBRIGHT, as Executor, etc., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

August 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Hickey, Chief Inheritance Tax Attorney, Walter H. Miller, Chief Assistant Inheritance Tax Attorney, Joseph D. Lear and William R. Elam, Assistant Inheritance Tax Attorneys, for Appellant.

Chester E. Cleveland, Latham & Watkins, A.R. Kimbrough and C. Robert Wilmsen for Respondents.


PATROSSO, J. pro tem.

Appeal by the Controller of the State of California from an order fixing the inheritance tax in the above-named estate.

The sole question presented is whether certain inter vivos transfers by the decedent, hereinafter to be mentioned, are subject to inheritance tax.

The facts are not in dispute. The decedent, Florence R. Stevens, died on May 29, 1955, at the age of 93. On December 20...

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