Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 8 | State Treasurer Institutes Suit

STATE TREASURER INSTITUTES SUIT Proceedings Against t A A. C. C Ricketts as a's Exe Executor of Ricketts Estate to toCoI ct Inheritance Tax John de deGray Gray Dixon Dixon- Tr Treasurer of the State te of Utah has Instituted mandamus manda- manda nus mus pro proceedings against Arnott C. C Ricketts executor of the estate of J. J M. M Ricketts deceased to enforce the payment payment payment pay pay- ment of alleged to be due to the State as an inheritance tax from the estate The demurrer o of th the executor accompanies accompanies accompanies' the petition petition-of of the Treasurer and rats raises s the constitutionality of f the inherItance tance Hance tax law Treasurer Dixon originally filed flied his ls action in the he S Supreme pr m court ourt but put that hat tribunal declined to tear hear it until It had been passed upon by a lower court The Th decision m in the case se will affect a number of estates in this this- county which are now in course of settlement The amount of money now In the hands of th the exec exec executor which is divided among amone the heirs heirs One of the contentions of the executor executors Is s that t the tte e estate cannot be e taxed for forthe forthe forthe the reason that that- n receives as much as