Show INHERITANCE TAX TEST Question of Constitutionality to Be Passed Upon RICKETTS ESTATE SELECTED Ii I i I 1 New Law Presented to Supreme Court t by State Treasurer Actlox to Recover I Re-cover Funds of nidgley Lodge of I Odd Fqllows Begun S Hays Files I HecordBrenking Complaint Ban meister Pleads Guilty in U S I CourtReceiver for Car of Ore Court Notes I S I Proceedings were ineliluled in the I Suprerats court yesterday for the purpose i pur-pose of sUng the conBUtutlonallty and validity the law passed by the t I asl State Legislature laxlng gifts legacies inheritances etc The mov ing1 party la I Stale Treasurer John DC Grey Dixon who prays for a i peremptory peremp-tory writ oC imuululo directing Arnott i C Rlclwtts execulor of the lost will 1 I and testament of James M Hlckeils deceased to pay to the State 793SS due as an Inheritance taxI tax-I Treasurer DIxon represents that the r net value of the estsuo Is i 23S77GS i 4 and that the three legatees I named in I the will receive SSC2GS9 each Also that there Is due to Ihe State 7038S I r which the executor haj > refused to pay I Accompanying ine pplitlon for the 1 writ Is tho demurrer ofthe executor who pleads that it Is not Hhown that the legalees will receive 10000 and I I that the act under which il Is sought to collect the tax unconstitutional I and void The Supreme court has not yet announced I an-nounced whether or not It will assume original Jurisdiction In the mailer but If it does not the action will be flied at onco In the District court The estates In this county that will probably be affected by the law arc those of David P MIMer John C Grlf llihs Mlchaol Quealy Peter Falr dough Dorothea C Jf Gad Lorenzo Snow Patrick Phelan B M Ellrr beck A H Raleigh TV S Palmer and Catherine S Williams |