IN RE SMITH'S ESTATE

No. 8688.

7 Utah 2d 405 (1958)

326 P.2d 400

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALICE GREENWOOD SMITH, DECEASED. JUANITA C. SMITH, GUARDIAN OF THE ESTATE AND PERSON OF DENNIS G. SMITH, A MINOR, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

June 4, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Draper, Sandack & Draper, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Clyde & Mecham, Elliott Lee Pratt, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


JONES, District Judge.

Should adopted children inherit from their adoptive parents' relatives: This is the sole question presented by this appeal. Appellant, as guardian of the estate of an adopted child, asserts that the probate court erred in declining to include said minor as an heir to the adoptive father's mother's estate. Respondent relies on the decision of this court in Re Harrington's Estate, 96 Utah. 252, 85 P.2d 630, 120 A.L.R. 830. It was there determined...

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