Matter of McCarty

STEPHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a court-tried action which disposed of four consolidated cases regarding the estate of Thomas D. McCarty, deceased. They are: 1) a probate action involving an application for widow’s allowance and distribution of exempt property; 2) a partition suit involving the claimed rights of the widow and other heirs to certain property the widow had held with her husband; 3) an interpleader involving the widow’s rights to insurance proceeds; and 4) a second interpleader involving the widow’s rights to her husband’s interest in certain certificates of deposit.

Thomas…