Estate of Tessier

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

Leo P. Tessier died on September 17, 1979, leaving a will in which he nominated the Northeast Bank of Guilford executor for the administration of his estate. Tessier’s children 1 raised objections to the first and final account filed by the Bank with the Probate Court, Somerset County, on March 10, 1981. In pursuit of their objections to the Bank’s accounting, the children, on July 14, 1982, filed two petitions with the Probate Court, one for review of the Bank’s employment of, and compensation paid to, its attorneys, as well as for review of the…