WORLEY v. WORLEY

77-337.

361 So.2d 1067 (1978)

Nancy Lillian WORLEY, Petitioner, in the Matter of the Petition for Letters of Administration on the Estate of Pinkie Maples Worley, Deceased v. William Howard WORLEY, as Administrator of the Estate of Pinkie Maples Worley, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Miller, of Culver & Miller, Huntsville, for appellant.

Jack Giles, Huntsville, for appellee.


BLOODWORTH, Justice.

The question in this case is whether the Probate Court of Madison County, Alabama, erred in denying a granddaughter's petition for letters of administration and in granting a son's petition, holding that the son had a preference since he was in a closer degree of kinship to the intestate than was the granddaughter. We hold the Court did not err and affirm.

Pinkie Maples Worley died intestate on January 7, 1978, leaving real and personal...

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