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WALTON ESTATE

409 Pa. 225 (1962)

Walton Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 28, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H.W. Dohan and Paul C. Wagner, with them Stanley B. Cooper, and Waters, Fleer, Cooper & Gallager, and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, for appellants.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Edward J. Ozorowski, Special Assistant Attorney General, and David Stahl, Attorney General, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, November 28, 1962:

Dorothea Walton, daughter of S. Davis Walton, died December 19, 1957, unmarried and without issue. She disposed of her entire estate absolutely by will dated August 14, 1956. The Orphans' Court held that the Commonwealth was entitled to a collateral inheritance tax on two-thirds of the principal of her father's residuary trust estate, because at the time of her death Dorothea had been seized and possessed of a...

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