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WINN v. LACKEY

No. 5526.

618 S.W.2d 910 (1981)

Wilder Alvey WINN, Individually, and as Guardian of the Estate of J. W. Winn, Jr., an Incompetent et al., Appellants, v. Bill LACKEY et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Denied July 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Green, Odessa, for appellants.

John Watts & Jack Willingham, Willingham & Watts, Hamlin, Allen D. Glenn, Glenn, Thomas, Paynter & Wilson, Abilene, for appellees.

McCLOUD, Chief Justice.

The issue is whether the rule announced in Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, 97 S.Ct. 1459, 52 L.Ed.2d 31 (1977), should be applied retroactively to the extent that an illegitimate child, who filed suit after Trimble, could inherit from her father who died intestate prior to Trimble.

On January 26, 1978, Wilder Alvey Winn, Individually and as Guardian of the Estate of his incompetent...

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