MATTER OF ESTATE OF LAMB

No. 13557.

655 P.2d 1001 (1982)

99 N.M. 157

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Dana U. LAMB, Deceased; Maria FELLIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. ESTATE OF Dana U. LAMB, Maria Fellin, Personal Representative, Respondent, Charles E. Lamb III, Charlotte Lamb Trautman, Hazel A. Pirone, Judith F. Jones, and Gloria E. Gifford, Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Aldridge, Cohen & Aldridge, Albuquerque, for appellants.

Thomas G. Fitch, Socorro, Leslie C. Smith, Truth or Consequences, William L. Lutz, Las Cruces, for petitioner-appellee.


OPINION

PAYNE, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment entered by the district court in two consolidated actions. The informal probate of the estate of the decedent, Dana U. Lamb, was consolidated by the district court with a petition for payment of claim by Maria Fellin for what amounted to a substantial portion of Lamb's estate. Several individual appellants were allowed to intervene in the latter action. Fellin was awarded the entire estate of the...

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