Bolling v. D'AMATO

How courts have described this case

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• holding that until a personal representative is appointed for a decedent, the decedent’s personal estate is without an owner
• holding that decedent’s son “lacked standing to bring [a] wrongful death action” because he had not been properly appointed as personal representative of the estate
• “[U]nder the Andrews rule, the . . . order [at issue] is void because, at the time the order was entered, the decedent already had a properly qualified administrator in Virginia . . . .”
• “cannot be questioned in any collateral proceeding”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).