Nettleton's Appeal
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Meriden fixing the amount of an inheritance tax and directing its payment to the State, taken to ¿he Superior Court in New Haven County and reserved by that court, George W. Wheeler, J., for the advice of this court.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Meriden fixing the amount of an inheritance tax and directing its payment to the State, taken to ¿he Superior Court in New Haven County and reserved by that court, George W. Wheeler, J., for the advice of this court. The Court of Probate for said district of Meriden made the following order: — Estate of Owen B. Arnold, late of Meriden, in said district, deceased. . ' “ It appearing to the court from the inventory of the above estate that the total property of said estate at the time of said inventory was as follows,…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Are §§ 2367 to 2377 inclusive, of the General Statutes, which constitute the Act of the legislature under which the decree of the Court of Probate was passed, null and void, for any one of the reasons assigned by the appellant ?
If the Act exceeds the legislative power of taxation, it violates the provisions of our State Constitution; it is not law; the person subjected to such taxation is deprived of his property by a means not clearly warranted by the law of the land, that is, without due process of law, and the person thus deprived of property without due process of law may invoke the…
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