NATIONAL NEWARK & ESSEX BANK v. HART


309 A.2d 512 (1973)

NATIONAL NEWARK & ESSEX BANK v. Percy Grier HART et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

September 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Collins & Crandall, by Samuel W. Collins, Jr., Wayne R. Crandall, Rockland, for plaintiff.

David A. Nichols, Camden, Peter P. Sulides, Rockland, Richardson, Hildreth, Tyler & Troubh by Edwin A. Heisler, Portland, for defendants.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.


POMEROY, Justice.

This case comes to us on report.

Halsey Tichenor Adams died on February 26, 1971. His Will, including three Codicils thereto, was allowed by the Knox County Probate Court on March 16, 1971.

Because the Will and Codicils did not specify what beneficiaries should bear the burden of payment of the federal estate tax and state inheritance tax, National Newark & Essex Bank, as executor, commenced an action for instructions from the...

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