Ray v. Rotella

COWART, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in a probate action removing a personal representative.

In 1976 Dorothy Waldon died intestate leaving a house then valued at $12,700 and a car then valued at $500 and essentially no debts. Mrs. Waldon’s heirs consisted of her *95four children, one of which, Blanche 0. Ray, was appointed personal representative of the decedent’s estate. The personal representative petitioned to mortgage the house to borrow the funds necessary to make $3,500 of repairs to the house, which repairs were authorized by the other heirs. The court entered an order permitting…