Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. v. McLemore

By the original and amended bills complainant seeks to enjoin the officials of the State from making an illegal inheritance or succession tax against the estate of Annie S. Fargason.

The questions involved were raised by demurrers, which the chancellor overruled. Defendants elected to stand upon their demurrers and declined to further plead; whereupon the chancellor decreed that the temporary injunction, theretofore granted, be made permanent. The defendants have appealed and assigned errors.

Annie Snowden Fargason died testate on October 13, 1924. She named her husband, John T. Fargason, execu…