Taylor v. Jones

This is an appeal from a final decree entered in the Probate Court by which the defendants are directed to pay to the plaintiff the balance of a legacy of $100,000 given to her by the will of Horace P. Tobey. The defendants have paid her $80,224.37 by depositing that amount to her credit, at 'her request, in the Fourth Atlantic National Bank of Boston. This sum was arrived at by deducting from the total amount of the legacy the Massachusetts inheritance tax of $8,937.50, the Maine inheritance tax of .$142.08, and a proportionate part of the federal estate tax, so •called, of $10,696.05, which…