Kinsel v. LeFever

The petitioners appeal from an order of the circuit court of Jasper County that denied their motion to file an amended petition to contest a will and granted the executor’s motion to dismiss the petition to contest the will. The only issue on appeal is whether the failure to make the executor of an estate a party to a will contest proceeding prior to the expiration of the statutory six-month period in which an action may be commenced to contest the admission of a will to probate, as provided by section 8 — 1 of the Probate Act of 1975 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 110½, par. 8 — 1), precludes…