Jones v. State

This ease involves the validity and construction of our Inheritance Tax Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. 1925, arts/' 7117--7144). The state instituted the suit to recover from Florence Jones, surviving widow of E. M. Jones, the tax alleged to be due under the operation of the. act upon 'a devise amounting to a large sum, upon which there was claimed taxes of $3,418.34.' The answer attacked the validity of the act, and pleaded generally. and specially. that the defendant had not received. under the will any “free disposal property of the estate of E. M. Jones,” that the property devised was…