Court Opinion

ID: 9673915
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:20:25.463469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:32.009386
License: Public Domain

BLACKMAR, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur. Under appropriate circumstances I might be willing to treat an application for a writ as a notice of appeal, if the petitioner might otherwise lose a right of review, but here all parties have agreed that the issues are determinable in an action in the nature of interpleader and I don’t know why they don’t stop litigating the peripheral issues and get on with the interpleader.
The insurance company sought to open probate proceedings in two estates because it deemed the personal representatives to be necessary parties to the interpleader. The personal representative exists simply to collect assets, pay properly established claims, and distribute the assets. I doubt that it would be difficult, in this case, to locate the ultimate beneficiaries, make them parties, and dispense with the representatives, but, with the case in its present posture, I don’t see why the representatives should further oppose being included.
I agree that the writ should be quashed.