MATTER OF MASON


33 A.D.2d 150 (1969)

In the Matter of The Estate of Samuel D. Mason, Deceased. State Tax Commission, Appellant; Philip M. Piaker et al., as Executors of Samuel D. Mason, Deceased, Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 4, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Best, Herbert B. Ray, Max Kuperman and Everett B. Morris for appellant.

Chernin & Gold (James B. Gitlitz of counsel), for respondents.

HERLIHY, P. J., REYNOLDS, STALEY, JR., and GREENBLOTT, JJ. concur.


SWEENEY, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Surrogate's Court, Broome County, entered November 1, 1968, which dismissed an appeal by the State Tax Commission from a pro forma order fixing the amount of estate tax to be assessed against the decedent's estate.

Certain life insurance policies amounting to slightly more than $80,000 on the life of the decedent were transferred by him less than...

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