Matter of Estate of Kimball

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] decree of distribution, even though erroneous, becomes final and res judicata in the absence of an appeal or any other timely challenge to the settlement and distribution decreed thereby.”
• courts have inherent equitable power to grant relief from accident or mistake

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