Matter of Estate of Campbell

Defendants appeal from the decree of the circuit court determining that Albert Earl Campbell and Roberta Marvine Campbell, husband and wife, died simultaneously in a boating accident at Hyatt Lake on September 22, 1979, and directing distribution of their jointly held property and life insurance proceeds pursuant to the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act. ORS 112.575 to 112.645. Both parties died intestate. Mr. Campbell was survived by three sisters and a brother, and Mrs. Campbell was survived by the defendants: a daughter and a son from a prior marriage. The sole issue is whether there is…