Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1898-04-25

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Mr. Justice McKenna, after stating the case;, delivered the opinion of the court. ' Legacy arid inheritance taxes are • not' new in our laws. They have existed in Pennsylvania for over sixty years, and ■ have been, enacted in other States. They are not new in.the laws of other .countries. In State v. Alston, 94 Tennessee, 674, Judge Wilkes gave a short history of them as follows: “ Such taxes wer…

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