In re the Estate of Kive

Wingate, S.

The truism of judicial experience that cases of insignificant financial moment frequently furnish most interesting legal problems is so commonplace as to make its repetition savor of the bromidic. It is, however, peculiarly pertinent to the present, proceeding. The questions here before the bar for determination arise on objections to the account of an executor and concern themselves with his failure to include in the assets of the estate certain portions of a bank account which at testatrix’s death were deposited in a savings bank in his name as trustee for her.

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