In Re Conservatorship of Smith

OPINION

WRIGHT, Judge.

On appeal from a judgment in a conser-vatorship proceeding, appellant argues that the district court’s order appointing a conservator should be reversed, or, in the alternative, that a new trial should be granted, because the district court (1) erred by applying the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure and permitting pretrial discovery and (2) abused its discretion by excluding appellant’s witnesses from testifying as a sanction for untimely disclosing their identity. We affirm.

FACTS

Appellant-conservatee Mary Larkin Smith (conservatee), who was 89 years old when this action…