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  "id": 5352544,
  "name": "Libby B. Hill et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hill v. State",
  "decision_date": "1924-09-16",
  "docket_number": "No. 760",
  "first_page": "22",
  "last_page": "24",
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      "cite": "5 Ill. Ct. Cl. 22"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:18:23.872152+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Libby B. Hill et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Phillips\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe petitioners, Libby B. Hill, Watson B. Hill and Jean Patterson Hill, who are respectively the widow, son and daughter of Watson Hill, late of Cook county, Illinois, deceased, represent that said Watson Hill died a resident of Chicago in said Cook county, May 17, 1913, leaving a last will and testament, dated April 27, 1910, and a codicil thereto dated February 6,. 1912, which were duly admitted to probate in said county of Cook June 27,1913; that in and by said will the Northern Trust Company was appointed executor thereof, and said estate was by him duly administered, declared settled and the executor discharged March 12, 1915. \u00b0\nOn October 30, 1913, the county court fixed the total inheritance taxes upon all successions under said will at the aggregate sum of fourteen thousand two hundred forty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents ($14,245.78), pursuant to which order the executor paid the county treasurer of said county the sum of thirteen thousand' five hundred thirty-three and 49/100 dollars ($13,533.49) being the amount so found due after the deduction of the statutory 5%.\nBy the 36th clause in his said will the testator directed that in the event all the aforesaid petitioners should die before the expiration of the term of ten years after his death, leaving no issue of a deceased child of his living at the time of the death of the last survivor of said petitioner, then and in that event the residue of the trust estate should be divided; transferred and delivered as follows: one-fourth to the testator\u2019s sister, Emily Hill; if she were not living then to her heirs at law; one-fourth thereof to testator\u2019s niece, Mattie H. Wright, and if she were not living then to her heirs at law; one-fourth thereof to Jennie S. Walts, sister of the petitioner, Libby B. Hill, and if said Jenny S. Walts were not living, then to her heirs at law and the remaining one-fourth to DePauw university of Greencastle, Indiana.\nThis was all that part of the will that is material in the issues of this case. That in fixing and assessing the inheritance taxes at the said sum of $14,245.78 one-half of the remainder of the entire estate of the deceased, subject to certain equitable estates by said will devised for the term of ten years after the death of said decedent, was taxed at the rate of 4 per cent and the other half of such remainder was taxed-at the rate of 6 per cent, by reason of the aforesaid contingent devices made under the 36th clause of said will and pursuant to the provisions of section 25 of the Inheritance Tax Laws of this State in force July 1, 1909, and at the highest possible rate thereunder, upon the assumption that the contingency specified in the 36th clause would occur, namely that the petitioners would all die before the expiration of the term of ten years after the death of the testator leaving no issue of a deceased child of the testator living at the time of the death of the last survivor of the three petitioners. The petitioners aforesaid did and have survived beyond the term of ten years after the death of the testator, hence all the aforesaid contingencies mentioned in said clause 36, contemplated in and by the original appraisement and assessment of inheritance taxes herein have become.and are now extinguished; and under said clause 36 in the will, wherein certain estates were subject only to the life- estate of said Emily Hill in a certain parcel of real estate therein described, and on May 17, 1923, each of the three petitioners became and are now s\u00e9ized and possessed of the one-third part of the residuary estate of the testator, and are entitled to enjoy the same free from any contingency.\nOn October 3, 1923, the county court of Cook county, witli the consent and approval of the Attorney General of this State, re-assessed and fixed the total inheritance taxes upon all the successions under the said will at the aggregate sum of $5,230.96.\nFrom the evidence on file the three petitioners, Libby B. Hill, Watson B. Hill and Jean Patterson Hill,' are entitled to a refund of $8,564.08, on computation as follows:\nOriginal tax ................................................... $14,245.78\nLess 5% statutory discount .................................... 712.29\nNet tax ................................................... $13,533.49\nOn re-assessment less 5% ...................................... $ 4,969.41\nAmount of refund due petitioners ............................... $ 8,564.08\nAccordingly an award is made to said petitioner in said sum of $8,564.08, with 3 per cent interest per annum from November 10, A. D. 1913.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Phillips"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, for claimant.",
      "Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General ; George C. Dixon, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 760\nLibby B. Hill et al., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed September 16, 1924.\nMayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, for claimant.\nEdward J. Brundage, Attorney General ; George C. Dixon, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0022-01",
  "first_page_order": 44,
  "last_page_order": 46
}