Hooks v. Owen

Cox, Judge.

This timely appeal arises from a September 21, 1995 judgment entry of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, Probate Division, ordering the distribution of funds and the payment of attorney fees and expenses from settlement proceeds paid by Presbyterian University Hospital, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to James W. Owen, decedent, in favor of defendants-appellees, Tim Owen and Kim Owen, despite the fact that the last will and testament of decedent designated plaintiff-appellant, Lynda Hooks, as the sole beneficiary of his estate. The court’s decision was based on a determination…