Dubois Adm'r v. Shannon

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the Franklin circuit court, holding subject to inheritance tax the transfer by survivorship of decedent’s one-half interest in certain stocks, bonds, real estate, etc., which had been acquired and held in joint tenancy by and in the names of the decedent, L. S. DuBois, and his son, the appellant, George S. DuBois, with “right of survivor-ship and not as tenants in common,” and which interest of the decedent passed to the son as surviving joint tenant upon the death of the father, his co-joint tenant, on…