SMITH v. WEIR

No. 52133.

387 So.2d 761 (1980)

Victoria SMITH v. R.A. WEIR, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Lambert, William C. Smith, Jr., Taylor, Covington, Smith & Matrick, Jackson, for appellant.

O.B. Triplett, Jr. (Deceased) by Tom S. Lee and O.B. Triplett, III, Forest, for appellees.

Before ROBERTSON, P.J., and WALKER and SUGG, JJ.


WALKER, Justice, for the Court:

This is a suit to partition certain real property situated in Newton County, Mississippi. The complainant Victoria Smith, alleged that her second husband, Grover Smith, owned an undivided one-seventh interest in this property and that this interest passed to her as his wife and only heir when he died intestate in 1968.

The defendants answered, denying that Victoria Smith was entitled to any interest in the lands, and asserting...

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