PECHIN v. MEDD

No. 1-984A219.

476 N.E.2d 526 (1985)

Sara Osborne Kirk PECHIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lavon Hilligoss MEDD; Juanita Medd Hall; Thomas Medd; Chase Medd; the Unknown Heirs, Descendants, Assignees, Personal Representatives, Grantees, Trustees, Devisees, Legatees or Successors-in-Interest, If Any, of Elsa M. Hilligoss; Evelyn Johnson; Lavon Medd, As the Executrix of the Estate of Leona May Johnson, Also Known As Leona May Hilligoss Johnson; the Unknown Heirs, Descendants, Assignees, Personal Representatives, Grantees, Trustees, Devisees, Legatees or Successors-in-Interest of Leona May Hilligoss Johnson; All Persons Whomsoever and All Associations, Firms, Partnerships and Corporations, Whatsoever, and All Personal Representatives and Successors-in-Interest and All Claimants Who Assert or Might Assert Any Claim, Right, Title or Interest in or Lien Upon the Real Estate Described in the Complaint in This Action or in Any Part or Parcel Thereof Derived, Independently, or from, by or through Any of the Defendants to This Action by Whatsoever Name or Names Said Persons or Claimants Are Now or May Have Heretofore Been Known, the Names of All of Whom Are Unknown to Plaintiff-Appellant, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosenthal, Grieves & O'Bryan, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellant.

C. Jack Clarkson, John O. Worth, Clarkson & Worth, Rushville, for defendants-appellees.


NEAL, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Sara Osborne Kirk Pechin (Pechin) appeals the Hancock Circuit Court's grant of the summary judgment motion of Lavon Hilligoss Medd (Medd), et al. Pechin had filed a complaint to construe the Will of her great-grandmother, Emily Hilligoss, alleging that she was entitled to a one-half interest in a 133-acre farm in Rush County that Emily had devised to Leona May Johnson (Leona) and her surviving children.

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