In re Estate of Slaven

The opinion of the court was delivered by In this proceeding an administrator included seven tracts of
real estate in his inventory of the decedent's estate. Grantees
in deeds, to whom the various tracts had been conveyed, filed
motions in the probate court asking that these various tracts be
stricken from the inventory; the probate court certified such
motions to the district court; that court ordered the various
tracts stricken. The administrator has appealed. The trouble arose when Emily C. Slaven died intestate on
September 4, 1952. She left surviving seven children and children
of two children who had predeceased her. Amongst other items
during her lifetime she owned nine tracts of eighty acres each.
During her lifetime she had executed deeds conveying these
tracts, one to each living child, and one to each group of
grandchildren. These were found after her death in the bank box
of the grantee in one of the deeds.