Estate of Winchester
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Dyke, J.
The appeal is taken in this case from that part of the order of the court below made and entered in the above-entitled estate, fixing the inheritance tax upon the legacies to S. Herbert Howe in trust for Mary Winchester Fay, William Burbank Fay,. Henry Harold Evans, and Laura Evangeline Evans, the children of Laura Evans, the adopted daughter of the decedent, Henry K. Winchester. The act under which the tax is imposed is entitled: “An act to establish a tax on collateral inheritances, bequests, and devises,” etc., approved March 23, 1893, (Stats. 1893, p. 193).
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