IN RE ESTATE OF ROBBS

No. 44044.

504 P.2d 1228 (1972)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Lucinda ROBBS, a/k/a Babe Robbs, a/k/a Salena C. Robbs, Deceased. Hotona SLACK et al., Appellees, v. Charles F. HOWARD, Administrator of the Estate of C. P. Howard, Deceased, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alpheus Varner, Poteau, for appellees.

Kay Wilson, Jr., Muskogee, for appellants.


WILLIAMS, Justice.

This appeal presents a question of statutory interpretation in a factual setting never considered by this Court before. It involves the general scheme of descent and distribution found in our statutes of intestate succession.

The question is whether the exception following the word "unless" in our half blood statute, 84 O.S. 1971, § 222, is applicable only when the half blood kindred and whole...

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