People v. Shaffer

This is an appeal from the county court of Macon county from a judgment rendered in that court imposing a transfer • or inheritance tax on certain property formerly owned by Francis M. Shaffer, now deceased. The appraiser fixed the transfer tax at certain amounts, and on appeal to the county court these amounts were modified, and the court fixed the tax on the property received by the widow at $902.55 and on the property received by the daughters at $696.27 each. From that judgment this appeal was taken by the widow and daughters.

Francis M. Shaffer died testate, eighty-one years of age,…