Ricardo v. Kelly

The State Tax Commissioner upon accumulating the information presently to be divulged came to the conclusion that three inheritance tax assessments were justifiable. The present appeal necessitates an inquiry concerning their legality.

One Mary G. Bakman, a resident of Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, died testate on August 3d 1908. At her death she was seized in fee of a parcel of real property in that city which she devised to her sister, Annie M. Renner, for life and the remainder estate in equal shares to her nephews, John Frederick Renner and Joseph M.H. Renner, the sons of the life…