In re the Intermediate Accounting of Savage

Pierson B. Hildreth, S.

In this accounting proceeding the executor requests instructions as to whether certain insurance proceeds are to be included as part of the estate for the purpose of computing the intestate share of the estate to which decedent’s husband is entitled under his conceded right of election.

By her will the decedent, who died in 1958, left her entire estate to her children equally. A portion of the estate accounted for consists of $31,802.64 received by the executor from the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company as a share of the proceeds of life insurance policies originally…