IN RE RICE ESTATE

Docket No. 68492.

138 Mich. App. 261 (1984)

360 N.W.2d 587

In re RICE ESTATE SUPERIOR NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF HANCOCK v. POYNTER

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Kedzoir, P.C. (by Richard W. Kedzoir), and Tercha & Daavettila (by James F. Tercha), for petitioner.

Kokkonen & Kliber, P.C. (by James E. Kliber), and Fischer, Franklin, Ford, Simon & Hogg (by Thomas F. Sweeney and Philip E. Chafree), for respondents.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and J.B. SULLIVAN, JJ.


J.B. SULLIVAN, J.

The respondents, Aileen M. Poynter and Elizabeth R. White (the sisters of the deceased), appeal as of right from the order of Houghton County Probate Court Judge Reino S. Koivunen dated November 24, 1982, which directed that the personal representative of Mrs. Rice's estate not pay federal estate taxes and Michigan inheritance taxes on a protective basis. This appeal involves only a small portion of a protracted will contest over the estate's assets...

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