In re the Estate of Collins

Foley, S.

In this accounting proceeding certain issues have been raised by the instructions requested in the petition and by the objections filed to the account.

The principal dispute arises over the claim of Minturn Post Collins, the life tenant of the residuary trust, to the payment to him of the carrying charges of alleged unproductive real property. The property was a country estate used as a summer residence and located at Bar Harbor, Me. It was specifically included by the testatrix in her will as an asset of the residuary trust. Mr. Collins was the husband of the testatrix. He is a…