Matter of Estate of Pegg

This appeal stems from orders of the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Musselshell County, denying a motion to remove the personal representative of the estate of Walter L. Pegg and granting a motion to approve settlement of a wrongful death action pursued by the same personal representative. For the reasons stated below, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand the case to the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County, for further proceedings.

Walter L. Pegg was killed in a helicopter crash approxi mately twenty miles southeast of Williston,…