Meshew v. Whitlock

OPINION

KNOPF, Judge:

Bobby Meshew, administrator of the estate of Robert Jeter (deceased), appeals from a May 15, 1998, judgment of the Carlisle Circuit Court. The trial court concluded that certain shares of bank stock are property of the estate rather than survivorship property passing directly to Jeter’s widow, Louise Jeter. Appel-lee James Whitlock, Jeter’s son, cross-appeals from the same judgment. He maintains that the trial court erroneously excluded certain other assets from the decedent’s estate. Agreeing with the administrator that the trial court misconstrued the statutes pertaining…