Court Opinion

ID: 9625804
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:51:24.020761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:15.473942
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WELCH, J.
(dissenting). The evidence on which the contest was based was in fact discovered after the probate of the will. The affidavit or verification of the petition was in fact made before the petition was filed, but by inadvertence and oversight was not attached to the petition before filing. I think in the interest of justice the amendment was properly allowed in the county court.
My view is supported by statute 12 O. S. 1941 §317, and by the following authorities: 57 Am. Jur. (Wills, paragraph 790) page 537; 49 C. J. 486; 49 C. J. 505; 34 Am. Jur. 211 and 217; In re Sullivan’s Estate, 40 Wash. 202, 82 P. 297; Decatur Coal Co. et al. v. Clokey, 332 Ill. 253, 163 N.E. 702; Blakeslee v. Blakeslee, 265 Ill. 48, 106 N. E. 470; Maher v. Bull, 39 Ill. 531, and Drainage Dist. v. DeLa Vergne, 298 Ill. 480, 131 N.E. 581.
The majority opinion seems only to be supported by the Impunnubbee case cited, but that case does not involve or touch upon the right to amend in case of mere inadvertence or oversight or the right to amend in any particular. That decision is not authority for the holding of the majority opinion that amendments, such as here allowed, could not be made after expiration of the time allowed by statute to file the petition, although the petition was filed in time. That exact question seems not to have arisen in Oklahoma before this case. I think we should hold the amendments were properly allowed in the county court.