FOSTER ESTATE

No. 169.

24 Pa. D. & C. 2d 182 (1960)

Foster Estate

Common Pleas Court of Erie County, Pennsylvania.

November 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gifford, Graham, MacDonald, Illig and Frederick F. Jones and Alexander, Clark, Mervine & Calderwood, for appellant.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, and Edward H. Carney, for Commonwealth.


ROBERTS, P. J., November 15, 1960.

This is an appeal from appraisement and assessment of transfer inheritance taxes in the Estate of Sila D. Foster, who died March 11, 1959. Decedent made pecuniary bequests in the amount of $52,529 to persons standing in a collateral relationship. These bequests are taxable at the rate of 15 percent under the Transfer Inheritance Tax Act.1 Decedent also made a pecuniary gift and residual bequests to charity...

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