ESTATE OF WILLIS v. WILLIS

No. 44746.

207 So.2d 348 (1968)

ESTATE of James Monroe WILLIS, Deceased, S.E. Willis and Rachel Willis Murphy v. Everette B. WILLIS et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Rayford Jones, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Clayton Lewis, Clayton Taylor Lewis, Philadelphia, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This case involves an attempt by appellants, S.E. Willis and Rachel Willis Murphy, to probate a lost will. On a contest by Everette B. Willis and others, some of the heirs of James Monroe Willis, deceased, the Chancery Court of Neshoba County denied probate. It held that, although proponents had met the burden of proof to show existence of the will and its contents, they failed to prove the authenticity of the signatures of the two subscribing...

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