Stewart v. Bush

ROBERTSON, Justice,

for the Court:

I

This is a rather sad case in which circumstances and human frailty have somehow placed family members at each other’s throats. At issue is a rather modest estate of a now 87-year-old woman whose sister and niece have become alienated from her late husband’s family. In an effort to achieve peace the Chancery Court appointed the niece and the late husband’s grandnephew as co-conservators. Still, only strife, acrimony and charges of wrongdoing and outright theft continue to be hurled back and forth.

On appeal, a wide variety of rulings by the Chancery Court have…