ENGLUND ESTATE

No. 3714 of 1954.

74 Pa. D. & C. 2d 230 (1975)

Englund Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Orphans' Court Division, Pennsylvania.

December 8, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Widger, Assistant Attorney General, for exceptant.

Paul Maloney, of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, contra.

Before Klein, Shoyer, Gutowicz, Bruno, Silverstein and Jamison,


JAMISON, J., December 8, 1975.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed exceptions to the decision of Shoyer, J., invalidating section 2 of the Inheritance Tax Act of June 20, 1919, P. L. 521, as amended, 72 P.S. §2302, insofar as it classifies sons-in-law as collaterals, subject to a rate of tax higher than daughters-in-law, whom it classifies as lineals.

By the terms of his will, Axel H. Englund, who died June 29, 1953, gave the residue of...

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