Matter of Estate of Lamb

OPINION

PAYNE, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment entered by the district court in two consolidated actions. The informal probate of the estate of the decedent, Dana U. Lamb, was consolidated by the district court with a petition for payment of claim by Maria Fellin for what amounted to a substantial portion of Lamb’s estate. Several individual appellants were allowed to intervene in the latter action. Fellin was awarded the entire estate of the deceased. We reverse.

We discuss two issues:

1. Whether the trial court erred in finding that Lamb and Fellin had entered into a common law…