Oxendine v. Overturf

DURHAM, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 This is the third appeal arising from separate cases concerning the proper distribution between heirs of settlement proceeds recovered from the University of Utah Medical Center as a result of the death of Gay Overturf. Here the decedent’s mother, Thelma Oxendine, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants, the probate heirs and their attorneys. The trial court held, as a matter of law, that she was not entitled to bring claims against them to recover a share in the settlement proceeds. Oxendine also appeals the district…