ESTATE OF DAVID v. SNELSON

No. 88SC362.

776 P.2d 813 (1989)

In re the ESTATE OF Robert W. DAVID, Deceased, Alan W. Blixt and Gerald R. Blixt, Petitioners, v. Lillian SNELSON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Davison, Aurora, for petitioners.

Hurth, Yeager & Sisk, Fred Y. Boyer, Boulder, for respondent.


Justice VOLLACK delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to resolve a conflict between two decisions of the court of appeals. In In re Estate of David, 762 P.2d 745 (Colo.App.1988), a divided panel of the court of appeals held that children adopted in 1961 were not entitled to inherit from their natural father who died intestate in 1986. In a case decided the same day, In re Estate of Bomareto,

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