In Re O'Neill

This is an appeal from transfer inheritance tax assessed and levied by the state tax commissioner (who now exercises the functions and authority in this behalf formerly vested in the state comptroller), under the provisions of the statute. P.L.1909 ch. 228 and amendments.

By the will and codicils of John A. O'Neill, a resident of this state, after giving household goods and personal effects to his widow, and money legacies to several individuals, he gave his residuary estate to trustees, with an equitable life estate to his widow, as to part thereof, and to Masonic Home of Pennsylvania as to…