Stoner v. Custer

This case comes to us from the Circuit Court of Adams County. The Executor of the Will of Herbert Stoner filed a Petition to Settle and Allow the Account and To Construe the Will, to determine who should bear the burden of paying the gift tax owed by the decedent at his death and whether the widow was entitled to the one-third (1/3) interest in all of the decedent’s property bequeathed to her in Item III of the will or one-third (1/3) of what remained after payment of certain debts and expenses.

To the petition filed by the Executor, the appellant filed objection claiming that the fee and…