BURKE ESTATE

No. 2173 of 1965.

39 Pa. D. & C. 2d 189 (1966)

Burke Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

May 6, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Power, Jr., for exceptant.

Charles F. Nahill, Special Assistant Attorney General for Commonwealth, contra.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor, Shoyer and Burke, JJ.


SAYLOR, J., May 6, 1966.

Upon the death of a Catholic priest, who was subject to a vow of poverty and was a party with his brother to a joint savings account and a jointly-held safe deposit box containing cash, was there a tax due on one half of the deposit of $10,388.14, and on one half of the cash of $260? A State inheritance tax of 15 percent was levied thereon in the amount of $784.66.

The surviving joint tenant appealed, and at a hearing testified to...

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