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IN RE ESTATE OF PRATT

No. 98-123.

144 N.H. 564 (1999)

IN RE ESTATE OF DAVID R. PRATT

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 29, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tower, Crocker & Mullins, P.A., of Jaffrey (Thomas P. Mullins and David M. Tower on the brief, and Mr. Tower orally), for Elaine M. Pratt.

Jennifer Roth, of Jaffrey, by brief and orally, for the executor, Steven A. Knight.

Philip T. McLaughlin, attorney general (Martin P. Honigberg, senior assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State, as amicus curiae.

JOHNSON, J.

The petitioner, Elaine M. Pratt, appeals a decision of the Cheshire County Probate Court (Espiefs, J.) dismissing her objection to the final accounting of the respondent, Steven A. Knight, executor of the estate of David R. Pratt. The petitioner objected to the executor's refusal to pay legacy and succession taxes on the proceeds from a joint bank account. We reverse and remand.

Through 1996, the decedent made deposits into a joint bank...

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