McIntyre v. Smyth

When Marion I. Knott died, her Last Will and Testament named, as personal representatives of her estate, two of her children, appellees Patricia K. Smyth1 and Francis X. Knott, and, among other things, left her “tangible personal property” to her ten surviving children. In dispute is the fate of that property and its implications for the standing of the decedent’s other children to request judicial probate. If, as appellees *22Smyth and Knott contend, that property was adeemed, before her death, appellants, who comprise six of the decedent’s eight other children, had no standing to file a…