THAW ESTATE


414 Pa. 347 (1964)

Thaw Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 11, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Nash, with him J. Garfield Houston, Henry V. Blaxter, Jr., and Blaxter, O'Neill, Houston & Nash, for appellants.

Sebastian C. Pugliese, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, with him Gustave Diamond, United States Attorney, for United States of America, appellant.

James Craig Kuhn, Jr., with him Wilner, Wilner & Kuhn, for Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc., appellant.

James M. Arensberg, with him Patterson, Crawford, Arensberg & Dunn, for University of Pittsburgh, appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, May 11, 1964:

These appeals raise four questions:1 (1) against whom are the death taxes chargeable under the provisions of this will? (2) are twenty-eight pecuniary legatees, whose legacies were delayed in payment, entitled to payment of interest on their legacies? (3) whether the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board (Board), to whom, by reason of a stipulation, a partial distribution of one pecuniary legacy...

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