TRACY ESTATE


403 Pa. 373 (1961)

Tracy Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 17, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

D. Alexander Wieland, with him William S. Bailey, and Brown, Brown & Wieland, and Bailey, Pearson, Miller & Bolton, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, April 17, 1961:

Testatrix died on October 3, 1947, and probate of her will and the grant of letters followed. Under her testament the income from her estate was payable to her sisters until the death of the survivor of them, when the corpus was to be distributed to certain named charities.

The surviving sister died on December 1, 1958.

At the time of testatrix's death the bequests to charity were taxable under the Act of...

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