Lilly v. State
Decision Date | 23 November 1928 |
Docket Number | 33. [a1] |
Citation | 143 A. 661,156 Md. 94 |
Parties | LILLY ET AL. v. STATE ET AL. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court of Baltimore City; Eugene O'Dunne Judge.
Proceeding by the State of Maryland and others against William D. Lilly and others. From an adverse decree, defendants appeal. Affirmed.
Argued before BOND, C.J., and PATTISON, URNER, ADKINS, OFFUTT. DIGGES, PARKE, and SLOAN, JJ.
J Morfit Mullen, of Baltimore, for appellants.
Willis R. Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Thomas H. Robinson, Atty. Gen on the brief), for appellees.
By this appeal we are asked to determine three questions: First, is the property now about to be distributed by the Safe Deposit & Trust Company, trustee, to the appellants, subject to a collateral inheritance tax? Second, if so subject, is the proper rate 2 1/2 per cent. or 5 per cent? And, third, upon what amount is the tax to be computed? The facts which give rise to these questions are contained in an agreed statement set forth in the record, and are substantially these:
That Channing Lilly, a resident of Boston, Mass., became the owner of certain fee-simple real estate located in Baltimore city, known as No. 323 West Baltimore street, by deed from Alonzo Lilly, dated December 22, 1888, duly executed and recorded. That on March 28, 1898, by deed of that date, duly executed and recorded on April 1, 1898, Channing Lilly conveyed this property, for a nominal consideration, to a certain James Cummings, of Boston, Mass. That Cummings, for a like consideration by deed dated also March 28, 1898, and recorded on the same day as the deed to him, conveyed said property to Channing Lilly, trustee, which latter deed is as follows:
That Channing Lilly died February 29, 1912, leaving an estate of the approximate value of $300,000, about one-half of which was located in Massachusetts and the residue in Maryland, his Maryland property consisting of the real estate referred to in the aforementioned deed of trust, and certain bonds, mortgages and other property. That Channing Lilly left a last will and testament which was duly admitted to probate in the orphans' court of Baltimore city, and under which said will the Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Baltimore was appointed coexecutor and trustee as to the real and leasehold property in Maryland, the provisions of the will of Channing Lilly relevant to this case being those in which the testator made provision for the distribution of his property after the death of his widow, who survived him, and under these provisions, upon the termination of the widow's life estate, the property covered by the deed of trust was devised and bequeathed to the appellants, who are collateral relatives, being his nephews and niece. That upon the death of Channing Lilly the Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Baltimore was substituted as trustee by an order of the circuit court of Baltimore city passed on March 18, 1912, the circuit court assuming jurisdiction over the further administration of the trust created by the deed. That subsequently the substituted trustee, in October, 1920, sold the Baltimore street property and reinvested the proceeds under the order and direction of the circuit court. That Frances E. Lilly, widow of Channing Lilly, the life tenant, died on August 25, 1927, and at the time of her death the trust estate consisted of certain bonds and mortgages of the appraised value of $80,560. That the real estate conveyed by the deed of trust, at the time of the death of Channing Lilly on February 29, 1912, had a value of $50,000. That no collateral inheritance tax has heretofore been paid on the said real estate or the proceeds of the sale thereof, or any property constituting the trust estate. It is further agreed that if any collateral inheritance tax shall be held to be payable, if the value of the property in question is determined as of the date of the death of the said Channing Lilly, the same will be payable upon the value of said real estate, to wit, $50,000, but that if a collateral inheritance tax is held to be payable upon the value of the said estate at the time of the death of said Frances E. Lilly, the same will be payable upon the said amount of $80,560.
The lower court decreed that the trustee, the Safe Deposit & Trust Company, pay to the register of wills, for the use of the state of Maryland, in due course of administration of this estate, the collateral inheritance tax at the rate of 5 per cent. on the sum of $80,560, the said amount being the agreed valuation of the property passing to the nephews and niece of the said Channing Lilly. The appeal is taken from that decree.
We will consider the questions in the order in which we have stated them.
First, Is the property in question subject to any collateral inheritance tax? The authority under which the state claims its right to collect this tax is contained in section 124 of article 81 of the Code, which is:
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