In Re the Estate of Ping Chun

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

TANAKA, J.

American Airlines, Inc. (American Airlines) and McDonnell Doug las Corporation (McDonnell) (collectively Appellants), intervenors in this probate proceeding, appeal from an adverse decision of the circuit court. We dismiss for lack of appellate jurisdiction.

Ping Chun (Decedent) died in an airplane crash in Chicago, Illinois, on May 25, 1979. A probate proceeding 2 was commenced below on November 14, 1980, when Edwin Y.H. Chinn (Chinn), Decedent’s uncle, was appointed special administrator of Decedent’s estate on an ex parte basis. Thereafter, as special…