Zipper v. McCutcheon

Two points only are raised in this case. The first is that the comptroller should have allowed an exemption of the entire cost of a mausoleum directed by the deceased testatrix to be built to contain her body and that of her deceased husband, which cost amounted to $9,000; and the other point *165is that the comptroller taxed a one-half undivided interest in a piece of real estate which had been owned by the executor and the testatrix as tenants in common and which undivided one-half, belonging to the testatrix, she devised to the executor. The mausoleum item is within the language of the clause…