In Re Estate of Eddy

Under challenge here, by direct appeal from the Probate Court for the District of Bennington, is (a) the validity of the charge imposed by 32 V.S.A. § 1434(1), prior to 1971 amendment, for granting letters testamentary or of administration, (b) the validity of the charge imposed by 32 V.S.A. § 1434(22), prior to 1971 amendment, and approximately doubled by that amendment now set out in 32 V.S.A. § 1434(6), for distribution of each estate by decree, and (c) the computation of these charges by the probate court, which used date of death of the decedent to determine the charge for letters…