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SPEAR v. NICHOLSON

No. 93-179.

882 P.2d 1237 (1994)

Nancy SPEAR; Elisabeth N. Holmes; and G.J. Guthrie Nicholson, III, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. Klara W. NICHOLSON, individually and as co-trustee of the G.J. Guthrie Nicholson, Jr. Trust; David L. Koerwitz, as co-trustee of the G.J. Guthrie Nicholson, Jr. Trust; Little Four Bear Ranch, a Wyoming partnership; Adrian Baumgartner; Josefine K. Wong; Terry Freeman; Herb Brentlinger; Tracey Market; Charmain Goodman; Norma Asay; Colleen Morris; Hot Springs County Senior Citizens Center, Inc.; American Power Dispatchers, a Washington corporation; St. Mary's Church, a Rhode Island corporation; Shriners Hospitals For Crippled Children, a Colorado corporation; Franciscan Sisters of Atonement, a New York corporation; Troy Schneider; Mary Schneider; William West; Bob Keough; David Kovash; Bonnie Kovash; Don Bonnette; Don Hawkins; Ken Lee; June Lee; Frank Taylor; Rose Taylor; Joseph C. Milner; F. Neil Conner; Sharyl D. Conner; Ted Pierce; Town of Thermopolis, a Wyoming incorporated town; and Eduardo Troya, M.D., Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

October 12, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas N. Long and H. Frank Gibbard of Thomas N. Long, P.C., and Richard P. Boley of Boley & McKellar, P.C., Cheyenne, for appellants.

Ronald P. Jurovich and Thomas W. Harrington of Messenger & Jurovich, Thermopolis, for appellees, Klara W. Nicholson, David L. Koerwitz, Little Four Bear Ranch, Tracey Market, Charmain Goodman; Norma Asay, American Power Dispatchers, St. Mary's Church, Troy and Mary Schneider, William West, Don Bonnette, Don Hawkins, Ken and June Lee, Frank and Rose Taylor, Joseph C. Milner, Town of Thermopolis, Colleen Morris, Hot Springs County Senior Citizens, Inc., Franciscan Sisters of Atonement, Bob Keough, and David and Bonnie Kovash.

Becky N. Klemt of Pence & MacMillan, Laramie, and Harry E. Coff of Reams, Reams & Coff, Grand Junction, CO, for appellee, Adrian Baumgartner.

Thomas A. Fasse of Miller & Fasse, P.C., Riverton, for appellees, F. Neil Conner and Sharyl Conner.

William R. Jones and Bruce A. Hellbaum of Jones, Jones, Vines & Hunkins, Wheatland, for appellee, Eduardo Troya, M.D.

Before GOLDEN, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, MACY and TAYLOR, JJ.

THOMAS, Justice.

The issue in this case tests whether a 1985 amendment to the probate code vested exclusive jurisdiction in the district court sitting in probate over all claims relating to the property and affairs of the decedent. After the commencement of probate proceedings in Hot Springs County, a declaratory judgment action was filed in Natrona County attacking, on the ground of undue influence, inter vivos transfers...

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