DIXON ESTATE


443 Pa. 303 (1971)

Dixon Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent X. Yakowicz, Deputy Attorney General, with him J. Shane Creamer, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Larry E. Phillips, with him Donald L. McCaskey, and Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle & Buerger, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and BARBIERI, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, June 28, 1971:

This appeal involves the correctness of the appraisement of the Estate of Harold R. Dixon, deceased, by the Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for inheritance tax purposes. For reasons that will appear later in this opinion, it is unnecessary to reach the merits of the controversy.

Dixon, the decedent, died testate in Allegheny County on June 1, 1968. Letters testamentary were issued by the...

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