HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The State has appealed because the Circuit Court would not permit it to retain the amount of inheritance tax due it by a joint tenant of realty from the purchase price of that realty which the State had become obligated by agreement to pay to that owner.
In March 1959 Rose Hutton, the owner of a tract of land in Montgomery County known as Woodlands, caused it to be placed in the names of John Paul Caulfield...
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