Case Name: In the Matter of the Transfer Tax upon a Half Interest in Shares of Stock in the William B. Dana Company which Passed from William B. Dana on His Death. Jacob Seibert, Jr., Appellant; The Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1915-04-27
Citations: 214 N.Y. 710
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Transfer Tax upon a Half Interest in Shares of Stock in the William B. Dana Company which Passed from William B. Dana on His Death. Jacob Seibert, Jr., Appellant; The Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 214
Pages: 710–711

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Transfer Tax upon a Half Interest in Shares of Stock in the William B. Dana Company which Passed from William B. Dana on His Death. Jacob Seibert, Jr., Appellant; The Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent.
(Submitted April 12, 1915;
decided April 27, 1915,)
Matter of Dana Co., 164 App. Div. 45, affirmed.
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered October 16, 1914, which affirmed an order of the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court imposing a transfer tax upon certain shares of stock. On March 14, 1905, Mr. William B. Dana, at that time the owner of 4,284' shares (out of 5,000 shares) of the capital stock of the William B. Dana Company, transferred 620 shares ©f the stock of said company belonging to him to “ William B. Dana and Jacob Seibert, Jr., and the survivor,” the Jacob Seibert, Jr., mentioned being the appellant. Such transfer was made over five and a half years previous to the death of Mr. Dana, which occurred in October, 1910.' A new stock certificate was at that time issued and delivered to Jacob Seibert, Jr., and said certificate remained thereafter in the continuous possession of said Seibert until Dana’s death.
Winthrop E. Dwight for appellant.
John S. Jenkins and Henry A. Miller for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Werner, Chase, Hogan, Miller and Cardozo, JJ. Dissenting: Hiscock and Collin, JJ.