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POTTS v. BRYANT

No. 44238.

194 So.2d 495 (1967)

W.H. POTTS and Nancy Ard Bryant v. James W. BRYANT et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 30, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.D. Statham, Magnolia, Larry A. Pacific, Laurel, for appellants.

M.M. Roberts, Bruce Aultman, Hattiesburg, Gerald McMillan, McComb, Craig Castle, Jackson, for appellees.

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:

The decisive question in this case is whether the chancellor was manifestly wrong in holding that Nancy Ard was not the widow and heir of John Ransom Bryant, who died intestate in California on May 25, 1932. Whether she was Bryant's widow depended upon whether she and John Ransom Bryant contracted a common law marriage between the years 1915 and 1924. Nancy Ard and another claiming through her brought this suit to establish title to an...

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