Coolidge v. Long

Each of these appeals brings here for review a decree of the probate, court of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, entered in accordance with a rescript from the supreme judicial court of the Commonwealth. 268 Mass. 443; 167 N. E. 757. In each ^appellants presented to the probate court an application.:for the abatemeiit of an inheritance tax assessed under § í;:;c.. 65, General Laws. There was drawn in question the validity of the statute on the ground of its being repugnant to the contract clause of the Federal Constitution and the-due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth…