Estate of Gorrell v. Gorrell

OPINION

Before GARFF, BENCH and JACKSON, JJ. BENCH, Judge:

Appellant Robert E. Gorrell challenges the judgment of a trial court finding a cash asset to be solely an asset of his decedent-wife’s estate. We reverse.

Katherine Wentland Gorrell, appellant’s wife, passed away May 4, 1984 at the age of 80 and after over 22 years of marriage to appellant. Later that day, while rearranging cupboards in the kitchen, appellant discovered a heartshaped beauty box hidden in a roasting pan. Inside the beauty box he found approximately $43,700.00 in mostly small bills. Prior to this discovery, appellant had…