IN RE ESTATE OF CARTER

No. 52,827

6 Kan. App. 2d 934 (1981)

636 P.2d 227

In the Matter of the Estate of Mabel Carter, Deceased. ROBERT E. CARTER, PHYLISS EILENE WRIGHT, and BELINDA FAYE WILLIE, and MRS. GLEN CARTER, Children and Wife of Glen P. Carter, Appellants, v. ROBERT M. CARTER, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed November 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven L. Davis, of Patton, Meyer & Davis, Chartered, of Emporia, for the appellants.

Thomas A. Krueger, of Krueger & Shaw, of Emporia, for the appellee.

Before JUSTICE PRAGER, presiding, ABBOTT, J., and HARMAN, C.J. Retired, assigned.


PRAGER, J.:

This is a controversy which arose in the administration of an estate and which involves the issue of whether a certain certificate of deposit should be included in the inventory of the estate. The district court ruled that the certificate of deposit in question was owned in joint tenancy with right of survivorship rather than by tenancy in common and, accordingly, ordered the certificate of deposit to be excluded from the estate inventory.

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