Adams v. Adams

This is an appeal by Fotini Adams, surviving spouse of testator, Peter Adams, from an order of the district court which dismissed her appeal from the probate court because of her failure to give certain foreign legatees the notice required by Minn. St. 525.712. The district court held this failure deprived it of jurisdiction to hear the appeal.

Testator, Peter Adams, a resident of Brainerd, Minnesota, died on May 11, 1971. By his will, dated November 13, 1970, he gave his wife, Fotini Adams, certain personal property and established a trust fund for her benefit consisting of a portion of his…