In Re Estate of Slaven

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

In this proceeding an administrator included seven tracts of real estate in his inventory of the decedent’s estate. Grantees in deeds, to whom the various tracts had been conveyed, filed motions in the probate court asking that these various tracts be stricken from the inventory; the probate court certified such motions to the district court; that court ordered the various tracts stricken. The administrator has appealed.

The trouble arose when Emily C. Slaven died intestate on September 4, 1952. She left surviving seven children and children…