IN RE ESTATE OF TIPPINS


487 Pa. 107 (1979)

408 A.2d 1377

In re ESTATE OF Marie C. TIPPINS, Deceased. Appeal of COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Duff, Deputy Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Alan H. Finegold, Marlee S. Myers, Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, MANDERINO, LARSEN and FLAHERTY, JJ.


OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This tax case involves the question of whether certain transfers made by the decedent more than two years prior to her death irrevocably divested her of all beneficial interest in various savings accounts and are, therefore, not subject to the inheritance tax.

On February 9, 1970, the decedent, Marie C. Tippins, delivered sixteen savings account passbooks to her son, George W. Tippins. Fourteen of these accounts were in the...

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