Sims v. Estate of West

THOMAS, Judge.

Edwina A. West died in April 2005. In May 2008, Frank Kruse, the general administrator of Mobile County, filed a petition requesting that letters of administration be granted to him. On June 24, 2008, the Mobile Probate Court granted letters of administration to Kruse.

On January 29, 2009, Kathryn Edwards, who claimed to be an heir of West, filed a petition for letters testamentary, claiming that West had had a will and that Edwards was named in West’s will as a successor executrix. In March 2009, Edwards filed a petition to disqualify the executrix named in West’s will, Joanne…