Walker v. Walker

BROTHERTON, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Putnam County, which granted to the minor child of Allie W. Walker the entire net amount of a wrongful death settlement. The appellants are the decedent’s ten adult children. Mary Lou Edwards Walker, the appellee, is the decedent’s widow and the administratrix of his estate.

The appellants assert that the circuit court erred by not making an equitable division of the settlement among all the decedent’s children. Upon careful review of the testimony adduced at trial, we find no abuse of discretion by the lower court…