In re Delano's Estate
Citation | 69 A. 482,74 N.J.E. 365 |
Parties | In re DELANO'S ESTATE. |
Decision Date | 28 March 1908 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court (New Jersey) |
In the matter of the claim of the state of New Jersey to an inheritance tax upon corporate stock bequeathed by Laura Astor Delano's will.
Robert H. McCarter, Atty. Gen., for the State. John W. Griggs, for the executors of Laura Astor Delano, deceased, and the Morris & Essex Railroad Company.
PITNEY, Ordinary. The parties in interest have appeared in court as if under citation issued pursuant to section 16 of the act for the taxation of collateral inheritances. P. L. 1894, p. 323; Gen. St. p. 3342, § 278. The question is whether certain shares of stock in the Morris & Essex Railroad Company (a corporation of this state) owned by and registered in the name of Laura Astor Delano, deceased, who died in Switzerland in the year 1902, and was then and for years prior thereto had been a resident of the principality of Monaco, are subject to the collateral inheritance tax. The disposition of these shares by the will is such that the shares are taxable under the act cited, if they are "property within this state," within the meaning of section 1 of the act. Since this case was submitted the same question has been passed upon by our Supreme Court in Neilson et al., Ex'rs, v. Russell, Surrogate, and Morgan, Comptroller, 69 Atl. 476, in which an elaborate and well-reasoned opinion has just been delivered by Mr. Justice Garrison, with the result of holding that shares of stock of a New Jersey corporation represented by certificates held by a nonresident at the time of his death at his domicile outside of this state, which passed by his will to persons not exempt by our law, are liable to the succession tax imposed by the act of 1894.
I concur in that view, and therefore hold that the shares of stock in question are subject to the tax.
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