REGISTER OF WILLS v. MADINE

[No. 303, September Term, 1965.]

242 Md. 437 (1966)

219 A.2d 245

REGISTER OF WILLS FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. MADINE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellant.

Patrick C. McKeever, with whom were Shearin, McKeever & Fitzpatrick on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, HORNEY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


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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