Philbrick v. Estate of Philbrick

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Beatrice Philbrick, indirectly a beneficiary of the estate of Verna H. Philbrick, appeals from an order of the Aroostook County Probate Court {Dunleavy, J.) denying her petition of December 8, 1988, to correct a 1980 accounting of the estate on the ground that the petition was time-barred. Because the first and final account was proved and allowed by the Probate Court on March 27, 1980, prior to the effective date of the Probate Code in January 1981, 4 M.R.S.A. §§ 401 and 403 (1979) govern the time limitation on an appeal from the Probate Court order in this case.…