Horan v. Roan

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.

INTRODUCTION

Nearly two years after the probate court approved their settlement of a will contest and dismissed with prejudice their petitions claiming that approximately $136,000 was part of the decedent’s estate, respondents Robert Douglas Roan and Janet True objected to the co-administrators’ accounting for failure to include that $136,000 in the estate’s residue. Co-administrator Nancy Horan appeals from the trial court’s judgment ordering her to return the $136,000 to the estate. We conclude that respondents are barred by the doctrine of res judicata from relitigating…