Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. v. McCoach

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. v. McCoach

127 F. 386, 13 Pa. D. 360, 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4609

CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania

DecidedJanuary 20, 1904

DocketNo. 14

StatusPublished

This text of 127 F. 386 (Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. v. McCoach) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. v. McCoach, 127 F. 386, 13 Pa. D. 360, 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4609 (circtedpa 1904).

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J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The facts of this case differ somewhat from the facts in Land Title, etc., Co. v. McCoach (No. 52, April Sessions, 1903, in the Circuit Coúrt for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania) 127 Fed. 38l, in which an opinion has just been filed, but the governing rule is the same. The testator died May 23, 1901. TIis will gave to his widow, Margaret, a life interest in two-thirds of the income, and to his daughter, Mary, a similar life interest in the remaining one-third. He then provided:

“And from and immediately after tlie decease of my said wife, or daughter, whichever event shall first happen, I then order, will, direct, and require, the whole of the said net income and profits of my said residuary estate shall be paid to the survivor of them for and during all the term of her natural life, in the same way and manner and subject to the same restrictions, reservations and conditions as are hereinbefore set forth respecting the payment of the income as aforesaid.”

By this provision, as will be observed, an estate in remainder was given to the daughter in her mother’s two-thirds; and, as the mother is still living, the only question to be decided is the nature of the interest in remainder thus given to the daughter. Is it a vested or a contingent interest? If vested, the tax was properly imposed; if contingent, the plaintiff should recover the sum unlawfully exacted. For the reasons already given in Land Title, etc., Co. v. McCoach, I am of opinion that the tax was lawfully collected.

' Judgment may be entered in favor of the defendant on the demurrer.

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J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The facts of this case differ somewhat from the facts in Land Title, etc., Co. v. McCoach (No. 52, April Sessions, 1903, in the Circuit Coúrt for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania) 127 Fed. 38l, in which an opinion has just been filed, but the governing rule is the same. The testator died May 23, 1901. TIis will gave to his widow, Margaret, a life interest in two-thirds of the income, and to his daughter, Mary, a similar life interest in the remaining one-third. He then provided:

“And from and immediately after tlie decease of my said wife, or daughter, whichever event shall first happen, I then order, will, direct, and require, the whole of the said net income and profits of my said residuary estate shall be paid to the survivor of them for and during all the term of her natural life, in the same way and manner and subject to the same restrictions, reservations and conditions as are hereinbefore set forth respecting the payment of the income as aforesaid.”

By this provision, as will be observed, an estate in remainder was given to the daughter in her mother’s two-thirds; and, as the mother is still living, the only question to be decided is the nature of the interest in remainder thus given to the daughter. Is it a vested or a contingent interest? If vested, the tax was properly imposed; if contingent, the plaintiff should recover the sum unlawfully exacted. For the reasons already given in Land Title, etc., Co. v. McCoach, I am of opinion that the tax was lawfully collected.

' Judgment may be entered in favor of the defendant on the demurrer.

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