Weddle v. Kirkwood

This is an appeal by Nancy Skinker Weddle, executrix of the last will and testament of Isabella N. Skinker, and B. M. Switzler, attorney for said executrix, from an order overruling objections to the report of the inheritance tax appraiser and fixing an inheritance tax due by reason of the death of Isabella N. Skinker.

Chronology

i. Isabella N. Skinker died July 19, 1955.

ii. Decedent’s will was probated August 5, 1955, and Nancy Skinker Weddle appointed as executrix.

iii. At the time of decedent’s death section 901 of the Probate Code read in part as follows:

“The executor, when no compensation…