Echols v. Hudson

Benham, Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to Hudson in Echols’ appeal to the superior court from a probate court order dispensing with administration of the estate of Hudson’s father, and Echols’ grandfather. Appellee’s petition to the probate court alleged that the decedent’s only property was a checking account and some household furnishings, and that debts of the estate had been paid from the checking account after the decedent’s death.

Appellant complains on appeal, as he did below, that appellee’s petition was defective because it did not allege, as is required by…