Riley v. Howard

The original petition in this proceeding

was filed June 19, 1914, in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, to compel the payment of a transfer tax, as imposed by the Inheritance Tax Act of 1893 (Stats. 1893, p. 193), upon the right to transfer 4,995 shares of the capital stock of the Howard Investment Company, a corporation, made by Charles Webb Howard to Central Trust Company of California, a corporation, as trustee, to be held by it for the use and benefit of the several respondents herein, excepting defendants Trust Company and Investment Company. The Anglo-California…