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SMITH BY AND THROUGH YOUNG v. ESTATE OF KING

No. 56977.

501 So.2d 1120 (1987)

Michelle Leigh SMITH, By and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Sherry Haynes Young v. Estate of Leslie Clifton King, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 28, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Fairly, Stratton & Fairly, Brookhaven, for appellant.

W. Rayford Jones, Jones, Jones & Jones, Gulfport, and Thomas J. Lowe, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal addresses the question of whether an executor of a will or an administrator of an estate who intentionally and fraudulently failed to disclose the existence of an illegitimate child to a court will vitiate a final decree adjudicating heirship.

Michelle Leigh Smith, by her mother, Sherry Haynes Young, as next friend filed a petition against the widow, brothers, sisters, mother, and grandmother of Leslie Clifton King...

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