IN RE ESTATE OF ADAMS

No. 88-120.

587 A.2d 958 (1990)

In re ESTATE of Bertha Mae ADAMS.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

December 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah S. McCoy of Keyser, Crowley, Banse & Facey, Rutland, for appellant.

John F. Evers, Susan M. Murray and R. Brandon Johnson, Law Clerk (on the brief) of Langrock Sperry Parker & Wool, Middlebury, for appellee.

R. Clarke Smith of Ryan Smith & Carbine, Ltd., Rutland, for executor-appellee.

Before PECK, DOOLEY and MORSE, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.) and SPRINGER, District Judge (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


PECK, Justice.

Appellant Caryl T. Adams, a residuary legatee of the estate of decedent, Bertha Mae Adams, appeals from a superior court judgment order disposing of certain assets of the estate and granting the executor a fee greater than the statutory amount. We affirm.

Appellant argues that three bank accounts should have been included in the estate because there was no clear and convincing evidence that the accounts were joint accounts with rights of survivorship...

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