Carpenter v. White

MAUS, Judge.

These consolidated appeals from judgments in a declaratory judgment action and a partition action present a single issue. That issue is whether or not a decree of distribution entered by the probate division of a circuit court in an intestate estate is a conclusive determination of the decedent’s successors in interest in two described tracts of real property. The trial court m each action held the decree to be a conclusive bar to the claim of the appellants who were not named in that decree. There is no dispute concerning the essential facts which are summarized as follows.

Clara…