Mack v. Calhoun

McFADDEN, Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the district court, the effect of which was to dismiss an attempted appeal to the district court from an order of the magistrate’s division in the proceedings in the estate of Lempi Irene Mattson. We affirm.

Shortly after the death of Lempi Irene Mattson, appellant Alfred Mack, decedent’s surviving brother, applied for appointment as the personal representative of his sister’s estate. Respondent John Calhoun intervened in the proceedings, alleging that he was the decedent’s husband and that as such he had priority for appointment as personal…