Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Robbs
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided December 12, 1972No. 44044PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1229WILLIAMS, Justice.
This appeal presents a question of statutory interpretation in a factual setting never considered by this Court before. It involves the general scheme of descent and distribution found in our statutes of intestate succession.
The question is whether the exception following the word “unless” in our half blood statute, 84 O.S.1971, § 222, is applicable only when the half blood kindred and whole blood kindred are related to decedent in the same degree, or whether it operates to disinherit nearer half blood kindred not of the blood of the ancestor in favor of more remote whole…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Estate of RyanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1943
- Pigeon v. BuckSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
- Gilfether v. SmithCalifornia Supreme Court · 1901
- Pigeon v. BuckSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Hill v. HillSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
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3Cited by4 opinions
- In Re the Estate of LittleWashington Supreme Court · 1986
- Leroy v. Johnson v. Thomas S. Kleppe, Secretary of the Interior for the United States of America, Washington, D. C.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1979
- In Re Estate of RobbsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1972
- In Re the Estate of LittleWashington Supreme Court · 1986