McBroom v. Child

On Direct Appeal

JUSTICE HIMONAS,

opinion of the Court:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 Fifty-six years after the death of Rufus Call Willey, founder of the R.C. Willey & Son furniture empire, two of his grandchildren, Helen Immelt and Don McBroom, sued William Child (their uncle; hereinafter Mr. Child), Sheldon Child (Mr. Child’s brother), William Critchlow III (Mr. Child’s attorney), and KeyBank 1 (as successor to Commercial Security Bank), alleging that they, along with Helen Barber (them grandmother), had deprived Ms. Immelt and Mr. McBroom of their rightful inheritance under the terms of their…