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IN RE ESTATE OF EDWARDS

No. 81-702.

106 Ill. App.3d 635 (1982)

435 N.E.2d 1379

In re ESTATE OF DAWN MARIE EDWARDS, a/k/a Dawn Marie Evink, a Minor, Deceased. — (JERRY EVINK et al., Petitioners-Appellants, v. DAWN MARIE EDWARDS, by Mary Lou Edwards Gregory, her Mother and Next Friend, et al., Defendants-Appellees.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Opinion filed May 20, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard P. Reese, Jr., of Reese, Reese and Bagley, of Rockford, for appellants.

Brassfield, Cowan & Howard, of Rockford (Eugene E. Brassfield and Frederic T. Brandt, of counsel), for appellees.

Judgment affirmed.

PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD delivered the opinion of the court:

Whether foster parents are entitled to bring an action for wrongful death of a child on theories of an agreement to adopt or "equitable adoption" is the question before us.

Dawn Marie Edwards, then 13, was struck by a car and killed on November 25, 1980. Jerry Evink filed a petition seeking to open a probate estate and to be appointed her administrator in order to file...

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