Anybody with an interest in an estate may.

It is routine, it happens constantly in every probate court in this country, and the reason it exists is precisely so that the contents of a dead person’s box are not first seen by one relative on their own.

Richard objected.

Hollifield filed four pages saying that the executor had sole authority and that the application was harassment.

Judge Avis Tankersley granted it on the twentieth of December in a hearing that lasted under six minutes and that I attended and in which nobody said anything interesting.

What she actually said, to Hollifield, and what I wrote down in the car afterward, was: