MATTER OF ESTATE OF PHILYAW

No. 56037.

514 So.2d 1232 (1987)

In the MATTER OF the ESTATE of Jeff Oren Philyaw, Deceased. Darryl Braxton v. Jeryl T. Johnson.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Murphree, Jackson, for appellant.

Landman Teller, Teller, Chaney & Rector, Vicksburg, for appellee.

En Banc.


HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Darryl Braxton has appealed from an adverse decree of the chancery court of Issaquena County in favor of Jeryl T. Johnson. The issues we address on this appeal are: (1) the time for appeal from an order allowing a contested claim against an estate; (2) whether Mrs. Gladys Marie Braxton, and after her death her estate, were deprived of an opportunity to contest in court the validity of an alleged indebtedness; and (3) to what...

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