Alldredge v. Forbis

ERICKSON, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review an unpublished opinion of the court of appeals which dismissed an appeal following the denial by the Larimer County District Court of a motion for a final accounting and distribution of the corpus of a testamentary trust. The court of appeals held that the failure of the appellants to give notice of the appeal to certain persons named in the trust who were not parties and did not enter appearances but who were named in the district court’s order as persons upon whom “copies of all pleadings” were to be served mandated dismissal of the appeal.…