Fullbright v. Boardman

The Court of Appeals desires instructions from the ■Supreme Court upon the following question, an answer to which •is necessary to a decision in this case: “In determining the value of the estate of a decedent, for the purpose of inheritance taxation under the act of the General Assembly of August 19, 1913, as •amended by the act of August 19, 1919 (Ga. L. 1913, p. 91; Ga. L. 1919, p. 58), is it proper to take from the gross value of the estate the amount of an allowance theretofore duly and regularly set apart by the court of ordinary as a year’s support to the decedent’s widow? In other…