IN RE WILL OF McGOUGH

No. 45358.

222 So.2d 673 (1969)

In the Matter of the Last WILL and Testament OF Mrs. Olivette Carraway McGOUGH, Deceased. Johnnie Belle Carraway MATTOX v. T. Wilson McGOUGH.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan, Sullivan & Keyes, Jackson, for appellant.

Watkins, Pyle, Edwards & Ludlam, Frank T. Moore, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.


INZER, Justice:

This is an appeal by Mrs. Johnnie Belle Carraway Mattox from a decree of the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County dismissing the petition of appellant to admit to probate a purported last will and testament of Mrs. Olivette Carraway McGough. The petition was dismissed because the chancellor found that at the time the alleged will was executed the testatrix was mentally incompetent.

Mrs. McGough departed this life on...

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