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MATTER OF ESTATE OF GUTHRIE

No. 54976.

475 So.2d 819 (1985)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Martha Watts GUTHRIE, Deceased. The STREET MEDICAL FOUNDATION and Leona Dawes, Executrix, v. John R. WATTS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Ellis, A.J. (Buddy) Dees, Jr., Ellis, Braddock & Bost, Vicksburg, Daniel J. O'Beirne, John T. Ball, O'Beirne & Ball, Natchez, for appellant.

David W. Hall, Riley, Pintard & Hall, Natchez, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and SULLIVAN, JJ.

PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from a will contest in the Chancery Court of Adams County, where a jury found for the contestant, John R. Watts, invalidating the last will and testament of Martha Watts Guthrie.

This case involves the descendants of Dr. and Mrs. John Watts of Natchez who had two children: Martha, the testatrix here, born in approximately 1902; and a son. Martha was married several times but had only one child, who...

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