In re Estate of Wood

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the Rockingham County Probate Court {Treat, J.) holding that New Hampshire law controls the distribution of certain proceeds recovered in the settlement of Thomas H. Wood’s potential wrongful death claim. We affirm.

Thomas H. Wood, a resident of New Hampshire, died on December 9, 1980, as the result of a motor vehicle accident which occurred in Massachusetts. The driver of the other car involved in the accident was also a New Hampshire resident. A settlement of the decedent’s wrongful death claim was reached prior to the initiation of any legal…