Robinson v. Holley

A beneficiary of an estate, who had removed the administration of the estate to circuit court and asked for a declaratory judgment and an accounting, and who had received an adverse ruling in the circuit court, filed a separate action in another county, in which she claimed that the executor and the trustee were guilty of fraud in the administration of the estate. The trial judge dismissed the fraud action on the ground that it was barred under the doctrine of res judicata.

FACTS

Lester L. Holley, Sr., died in 1976, and by the terms of his will, his wife Betty received a life estate in three…