Legal Opinion

Hess Trust

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Lancaster County

Decided April 15, 1948No. 50Published

1Opinion of the Court

Appel, P. J.,

— By appeal to this court, the Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as succeeding trustee of the inter vivos trust created by Charles Wilbur Hess while a resident of the State of Illinois (and before his subsequent residence and death in Lancaster County, Pa.), it is contended that the assets of the trust, consisting entirely of intangible personal property located in the State of New York and never within the State of Pennsylvania, are not subject to the provisions of the Transfer Inheritance Tax Act of June 20, 1919, P. L. 521, and its supplements, 72 PS §2301.

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2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Bullen v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  2. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  3. Graves v. ElliottSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  4. Dolan's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  5. Tack's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937

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