Wagy v. McKean

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an order and decree determining heirship entered in the estate of Gertrude Brown, deceased, by the district court of Gallatin County.

Gertrude Brown died intestate in Bozeman, Montana on January 10, 1970, leaving an estate consisting of real and personal property, and at the time of her death she left no surviving husband, children, mother, father, brothers or sisters.

The deceased, however, had one sister who predeceased her. This sister had five children, three surviving and two predeceasing Gertrude…