Rambo's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Rambo's Estate, 266 Pa. 520 (Pa. 1920)
109 A. 671; 1920 Pa. LEXIS 601
Brown, Frazer, Kephart, Simpson, Walling

Rambo's Estate

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

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 *522the share given to her daughter, Mary G. Anders, should be held in trust by a named trustee, to be by him invested “in gafe legal securities,” the income derived therefrom to be paid to the daughter. To give effect to her intention that her whole estate should be distributed as money, she gave positive direction to her executors to sell all of her real estate at public or private sale. The manifestly correct conclusion of the learned court below was that this worked an equitable conversion: Cooper’s Est., 206 Pa. 628; Battenfeld v. Kline, 228 Pa. 91. The State is therefore entitled to the inheritance tax which it claims: Dalrymple’s Eat., 215 Pa. 367.

Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.

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Syllabus
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.