OWEN, Judge.
Benjamin R. Berlin filed a petition to legally adopt his wife's three minor children by her previous marriage. While that matter was still pending, Mr. Berlin was killed in an automobile accident, whereupon the court on its own motion dismissed the adoption proceedings for want of jurisdiction to proceed.
The minor children, through their mother as next friend, then brought a separate action in the circuit court against the executor of the estate...
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