LUCAS v. WASHINGTON COUNTY

No. CV-18-620.

614 S.W.3d 840 (2020)

2020 Ark. App. 540

Joseph LUCAS, an Individual; Glen Lucas, an Individual; Robert Lucas, an Individual; Barbara Johnson, an Individual; Thomas Lucas, an Individual; and David Abbott, an Individual, Appellants v. WASHINGTON COUNTY; Pamela Vitko, as Personal Representative and on Behalf of the Laura Lee Broderick Estate; Cecily Lennard Lucas, as Personal Representative and on Behalf of the John P. Lucas Estate; and Victoria Gilbertie, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas, DIVISION I.

Rehearing Denied February 10, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Fayetteville, by: Curtis E. Hogue and M. Scott Hall , for appellants.

Howerton Law Firm, Fayetteville, by: Wendy R. Howerton , for appellees.


This appeal involves a dispute over an estate that escheated to Washington County. Two groups of the decedent's cousins filed petitions seeking to claim a share of the estate. The circuit court dismissed the petition of one group of cousins—referred to as the Lucas heirs1—and divided...

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