WASHINGTON, ET AL. v. BARKER, ADM.

No. 41110.

236 Miss. 436 (1959)

110 So.2d 615

IN RE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH COOK BARKER, DECEASED. WASHINGTON, et al. v. BARKER, ADMR.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scales & Scales, Pyle & Tucker, Jackson, for appellants.

Hugh B. Gillespie, Jr., Raymond; Geo. W. Haynes, Utica, for appellee.


HALL, J.

This suit involves the respective claims of the appellants and the appellee to the estate of Elizabeth Cook Barker, deceased. The appellants claim the estate as the mother and two sisters of the deceased, and the appellee claims it as the common-law husband of the deceased.

The record discloses that the deceased was married to Guy Cook on June 23, 1917, at Natalbany, Louisiana. Shortly afterward Guy Cook...

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