Hodges v. Kotecki

OPINION

In a related appeal we ruled, inter alia, that notice of an estate proceeding under the decedent’s married name was not notice to wrongful death claimants who knew the decedent under a name she had assumed for professional purposes, and that closing of her estate did not preclude those claimants from thereafter asserting their claims. Kotecki v. Augusztiny, 87 Nev. 393, 487 P.2d 925 (1971). Following remittitur in 1971, the wrongful death claimants obtained the appointment of Kotecki as general administratrix of the decedent’s estate, presented their claims, and sought to assert those…