State Ex Rel. Line v. Rouse

This case arose out of a controversy between the relator, William G. Line, an attorney at law, and Merrill Snover and Dorothy Willnerd, two beneficiaries of the estate of Walter Snover, deceased. The respondent is Gerald E. Rouse, a county judge.

Line was formerly the personal representative appointed in the Snover estate proceedings, but in In re Estate of Snover, 233 Neb. 198, 443 N.W.2d 894 (1989), the order of the district court removing Line as personal representative was affirmed.

Merrill Snover and Willnerd were appointed as copersonal representatives to succeed Line, and they then filed…