Thomas v. Evans

MONTGOMERY, Chief Judge.

Ronald Dewald and Judith Dewald, formerly Johnson, were married little more than a month before Ronald killed Judith and then committed suicide.1 Justin A. Thomas, personal representative of Judith’s estate, and Justin A. Thomas, Timothy Kingery, and Wesley Kingery, individually, Judith’s heirs, filed a Petition in Equity for Declaratory Judgment against William J. Evans and Carolyn Evans, personal representatives of the Estate of Ronald P. Dewald.2 Maintaining that equity requires the court to treat the murdered Judith as the survivor of Ronald so that she could take…