Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co. v. O'CONNOR

137 Conn. 267 (1950)

THE HARTFORD-CONNECTICUT TRUST COMPANY ET AL., EXECUTORS (ESTATE OF EDITH M. HOWARD)

v.

DENNIS P. O'CONNOR, TAX COMMISSIONER

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Argued April 4, 1950.

Decided July 25, 1950.

BROWN, C. J., JENNINGS, BALDWIN, INGLIS and O'SULLIVAN, JS.

Charles Welles Gross, for the plaintiffs.

Louis Weinstein, inheritance tax attorney, with whom, on the brief, were William L. Hadden, attorney general, and Frederic W. Dauch, first assistant tax commissioner, for the defendant.

JENNINGS, J.

On March 24, 1924, Alice H. Bennett, Mary L. Howard and Edith M. Howard, three sisters,…