In re Estate of Boone

Donofrio, Judge.

{¶ 1} Appellant, the estate of Carl Boone, appeals from a Mahoning County Probate Court judgment determining that death benefits of several insurance policies were to be distributed to appellee, Dawn Carbone.

{¶ 2} Carl Boone and appellee were engaged and lived together for ten years prior to the events that began on January 18, 2008. On that date, Carl went to the Alliance Community Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. An emergency appendectomy was performed. Although the surgery was successful, a series of post-operative complications arose, the result being that Carl…