Tyler v. Dane County

LUSE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, citizens of Massachusetts, bring this action as executors of the estate of Charles E. Cotting, who in his lifetime was a citizen of Massachusetts, against the defendants to recover $6,163.32, alleged to have been exacted by the defendants and paid by the plaintiffs involuntarily under duress and protest, by way of inheritance taxes upon shares of stock owned by the decedent in corporations foreign to the state of Wisconsin, but which did business and owned property in this state. The complaint avers ownership by plaintiffs’ decedent of various shares of…