Court Opinion

ID: 9845912
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:30:57.534537+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:26.305229
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice McWilliams
dissenting:
I must respectfully dissent. In my view the rule to show cause which has heretofore issued from this court should be discharged for the reason that the petitioners in this court are not parties in or to the probate proceedings now pending in the trial court. It should be noted that the petitioners are not named as devisees or legatees in the will of their stepmother, Jewel Curry Beere, or are they in any manner referred to therein. Nor is either of the petitioners the personal representative of their deceased father, Alex William Beere. The petitioners have filed no claim of any type against the estate of their stepmother. The petitioners somewhat vaguely allude to the possibility that they may in the future in some manner contest the will of their stepmother, which will has now been admitted to probate. But as of the moment such is not a reality, only a suggestion of what might happen. It is for these reasons that I would hold that the petitioners are strangers to the probate proceedings now pending in the trial court and hence not being a party thereto are in no position to enjoy the discovery procedures which they seek to utilize.