Byrd v. Trennor

Fain, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant Lorrie L. Byrd appeals from a summary judgment rendered against her on her petition to determine heirship, and in favor of defendants-appellees Eileen Trennor and John Charles Fitzgiven. In her petition, Byrd alleged that she was the daughter of Daniel Fitzgiven, who died intestate. Byrd contends that the judgment denying her the right to participate in her father’s estate violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

{¶2} In accordance with the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision in White v.…