QUINTRALL v. GOLDSMITH

No. 17943.

306 P.2d 246 (1957)

Nadene Fowler QUINTRALL, Plaintiff in Error, v. Paul F. GOLDSMITH, The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and The Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Denver, Colorado, as Proponents of Last Will and Testament of Loretta S. Wiltse, Deceased, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied February 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Melville and Fred M. Winner, Denver, Hackethal & McNeill, Lakewood, for plaintiff in error.

Holland & Hart and Jay W. Tracey, Jr., Sears & Goldsmith and Edwin M. Sears, Denver, for defendants in error.


SUTTON, Justice.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the county court: namely, plaintiff in error as "caveatrix" or by name; defendants in error as "proponents"; and the decedent Loretta Wiltse as "testatrix" or by name.

This is a case of first impression in Colorado, and though several matters are involved, the primary question is whether a child adopted by two successive sets of parents has a legal right to inherit from the first adoptive...

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