Shealer v. Straka

ARGUED BEFORE: Barbera, C.J. Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ.

Getty, J.

The Bench, the Bar, and the general public should no longer tolerate the condition which 170 years of patchwork amendments have created out of the relatively simple Act of 1798. The Commission's basic job, therefore, has been to attempt to create reasonable order in the law of decedents' estates.... Most of the changes of substance are motivated by one salient thought-the handling of estates should be accomplished with efficiency, expedition, and as little red tape and expense as possible.

Honorable…