Smith v. Coons

This appeal by Don Coons and Glen Smith, as executors of the estate of Leeta Smith, deceased, involves the construction of a will by the circuit court of Livingston County. The circuit court found that the estate included items of personal property for which the will did not direct distribution. The court ordered that this personal property was to pass intestate to the decedent’s surviving heirs, Sharlotte Keenan, Sharlene Smith, and Shaunn Smith. The estate appeals from the order of the circuit court directing release of that property.

The only issue raised on appeal is whether the trial…