In re the Estate of Oakes

Foley, S.

This is a motion to confirm the referee’s report. Exceptions have been filed by the contestants to the report of the referee that the executor properly credited himself with the sum of $35,455.82, paid to the United States government for Federal inheritance taxes upon 2,890 shares of stock of the Oakes Manufacturing Company. These 2,890 shares were transferred in two lots, one of 1,380 shares and the other of 1,510 shares.(1) As to the transfer of 1,380 shares of stock in that company, the referee has found that they were delivered by the testator to the executor, his son, Francis J.…