McDonnall v. Drawz

Peterson, Justice.

On January 9, 1939, one Claude A. Bates, an adult, died intestate owning real estate not homestead in character which descended to him by inheritance from his father, Horace A. Bates, who acquired ownership of the property by purchase. Claude left no surviving spouse, child, or. issue of any deceased child, father, mother, sister, or brother. He left him surviving two groups of relatives who claim his estate. One group, the four respondents (Vera McDonnall, Alta McDonnall Carr, Grace McDonnall Millage, and Richard Randall McDonnall), composed of relatives on his mother’s…