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MATTER OF ESTATE OF DeVOSS

No. 90-1076.

474 N.W.2d 539 (1991)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Beulah E. DeVOSS, Deceased. J.W. McGRATH, Executor of the Estate of Beulah DeVoss, Appellee, Robert T. Carlson, Jr., Connie L. Scharffenburger, and Randy Carlson, Intervenors-Appellants, v. Kent BERRYMAN and Kathy Berryman, Husband and Wife; Bobby Darrell Holsapple and Barbara Joan Holsapple, Husband and Wife; Glen Randolph; and William Elmer Foster, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Richard Smith and David Swinton of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie, Smith & Allbee, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Kenneth L. Keith of Keith, Orsborn, Milani & Neary, Ottumwa, for appellees Kent Berryman, Kathy Berryman, Bobby Darrell Holsapple, Barbara Joan Holsapple, and Glen Randolph.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

Disinherited heirs were denied the right to intervene in this declaratory judgment action. The action was brought by the executor to determine the validity of deeds signed by the decedent. In this appeal the heirs seek to dispute the denial. We agree that their interest in the litigation was too remote to entitle them to intervene. We thus affirm.

Beulah DeVoss survived her husband Don by only six weeks. They were a wealthy couple; Beulah...

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