Williams v. Grossman

Everleanna Williams, the plaintiff, was a passenger in an automobile driven by Eddie Lee Garnett when it struck a railroad viaduct and he was killed. Williams commenced this action in circuit court against the administrator of Garnett’s estate, Steven A. Grossman, and others,1 within the three-year limitational period, but over two years after an order had been entered in the probate court closing the estate. No notice of the hearing on claims or of the pendency of probate proceedings had been given to Williams other than such as is provided by newspaper publication.

*77The circuit judge granted…