ESTATE OF SIMONSON


11 Wis.2d 84 (1960)

ESTATE OF SIMONSON: STATE, Appellant, v. HOBBS and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

June 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was argued by E. Weston Wood and Harold H. Persons, assistant attorneys general, and Richard E. Williams, inheritance tax counsel, with whom on the briefs was John W. Reynolds, attorney general.

For the respondents there was a brief and oral argument by E. Nelton of Balsam Lake.

A brief amicus curiae was filed by Churchill, Duback & Churchill of Milwaukee, for the First Wisconsin Trust Company.


FAIRCHILD, J.

The parties evidently agree that any differences between the bank accounts and bonds are immaterial upon this appeal and that they were alike in that, while decedent and his wife were living, either had power, without the consent of the other, to withdraw the deposits, or collect the bonds, and that after the death of either the survivor could do so.

Respondents, the administrators and the widow, contend that the inheritance tax to be imposed...

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