URQUHART J.:—Application by the executor for interpretation of the will and codicil of the deceased. All parties interested in the controversy have been duly served under the directions of Wells .J.

THORSON, P.:—This appeal raises the question whether the profits of an optometrist are exempt from liability to taxation under The Excess Profits Tax Act, 1940, Statutes of Canada, 1940, chap. 32. The appellant, an optometrist at

KERWIN, J.:—On October 7, 1937, W. Herbert Brookfield, domiciled and resident in Nova Scotia, made an arrangement with Royal Trust Company under which the latter, from time to time, on his instructions, bought shares of the capital stock of various companies

GRAHAM, J.:—The Court has to decide whether or not succession duty was payable to the Province of Nova Scotia upon certain property to which, at the time of his death, W. II. Brookfield was " entitled ‘ or which passed upon his death, by reason

MACFARLANE, J.:—This is an application under sec. 40 of the Succession Duty Act, R.S.B.C. 1936, c. 270, to determine for succession duty purposes the value of one-third of the rentals in respect of a lease forming part of the estate of

E. G. Cowling f K.C., and E. S. MacLatchy, for appellant.

J. R. Tolme and J. M. Coyne, for respondent.

COYNE, J.A.—I agree with Adamson, J.A.

CAMERON, J.—This is an appeal from assessment to income tax and excess profits tax for the taxation year 1943, the fiscal year of the appellant ending on June 30, 1943. The appellant company, both in the year 1943 and the preceding year, was engaged

O’Connor, J.—These are appeals under the Income War Tax Act, R.S.C., 1927, c. 97, from assessments for the years 1943, 1944 and 1945.

KELLOCK, J.:—Section 6 of the Dominion Succession Duty Act, as it stood at the time of the matters here in question, provides for liability to duty subject to the exemptions in section 7. Section 7, so far as material, is as