137 Pa. 595 | Pa. | 1890
John Ferguson, the testator, devised and bequeathed to his illegitimate son John Albert Ferguson, an estate amounting to $17,282.97. The only question is whether the estate so given is subject to collateral inheritance tax.' If this were all, there would be no doubt about it. But it appears from the statement of facts agreed upon that on February 18, 1871, an act of assembly was passed which enacted “that John Albert Ferguson, of the township of Independence, in the county of Beaver, be,
Judgment affirmed.