JONES v. LOVELL

No. 43260.

251 Miss. 503 (1965)

170 So.2d 431

JONES, et al. v. LOVELL

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 11, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard C. Ross, Jr., Jackson, for appellants.

Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock & Cunningham, Jackson, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

In this case a child was adopted under the pre-1955 statute, and for his protection from an improvident adoptive father, who lated died, the mother purchased a home and had the deed made to her and the child, who died while still a minor and without children. The question is whether the property is inherited by the adoptive mother, the channel through which it came, or by the blood relatives of the child. We...

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