Rambo's Estate
Rambo's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The single question before the court below and on this appeal is whether the real estate of the testatrix, situated in Massachusetts and Connecticut, was converted into personalty by the terms of her will. By the second paragraph of that instrument she gave her entire estate, real and personal and wherever situated, to her five children, but her evident intention was that it should be divided among them as money, for she directed that
Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.
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- Taxation — Direct inheritance tax — Will—Direction to sell real estate — Beal estate in other states — Conversion. Where testatrix gives her entire estate, real and personal, wherever situated, to her five children, and directs that the share of one of her daughters shall be held in trust by a named trustee, to be by him invested “in safe legal securities,” the income derived therefrom to be paid to the daughter, and further positively directs her executors to sell all of her real estate at public or private sale, the manifest intention of the testatrix is that her whole estate ^hall be distributed as money, and her will works an equitable conversion of real estate situated in other states, so as to make such real estate liable for the direct inheritance tax under the Pennsylvania law.