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ESTATE OF SYKES

27 Wis.2d 211 (1965)

ESTATE OF SYKES: GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

March 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Nowlan, Mouat, Lovejoy, McGuire & Wood of Janesville, and oral argument by Hiram M. Nowlan, Jr.

For the respondent the cause was argued by E. Weston Wood, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief were Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Harold H. Persons, assistant attorney general, attorneys, and Richard E. Williams, inheritance tax counsel, of counsel.

WILKIE, J.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether two bequests to a Wisconsin voluntary cemetery association, one for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a chapel and also for providing space for the temporary storage of coffins, and the other for the purpose of erecting a chapel, maintaining that chapel, and for acquiring additional land for cemetery purposes, are wholly exempt from inheritance taxes.

"Taxation is the rule laid down, and exemption...

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