Cory v. Jenney

Opinion

COBEY, Acting P. J.

Kenneth Cory, State Controller, appeals from an order fixing, after objections, the total inheritance tax payable by the *517beneficiaries of the estate of Winifred W. O’Donnell, also known as Mrs. Thomas A. O’Donnell, as $58,042.36. The appeal lies. (Prob. Code, § 1240.)

The report of the inheritance tax appraiser set the tax due as $891,692.18. The trial court, however thereafter, sustained written objections, filed jointly by the executor of the estate of the above-named decedent and by the trustee of the Thomas A. O’Donnell trust, to this figure. The inheritance tax…