Bell v. Hampton

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

In a bench trial the court ruled in favor of plaintiffs on their petition for discovery of assets and accounting and on defendant’s “cross-petition” to withdraw assets from decedent’s estate. We affirm.

Plaintiffs, children of Fred Hampton by prior marriages, initiated proceedings in the probate court seeking an order requiring defendant, individually and as administra-trix, to account for and pay to Hampton’s estate the proceeds of a savings certificate which was in his name at the time of his death. Defendant, as administratrix of her late husband’s estate, had…