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COLLIER v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 58824.

534 So.2d 1015 (1988)

Mable COLLIER, Victor Alexander, Charlotte Alexander and Willie Louise Burrell, Heirs at Law of Victor Blue Alexander, Deceased: Lewis E. Turner and Robert W. Vaughan v. SHELL OIL COMPANY and Amoco Production Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry W. Gilmer, Gilmer Law Firm, Jackson, for appellant.

David B. Gross, Jackson, Hugh Craig Forshner, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I.

This case presents the hardest question spawned by Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, 97 S.Ct. 1459, 52 L.Ed.2d 31 (1977). Putative heirs of a Rankin County landowner claim under our statute on descent and distribution as modified by the Equal Protection Clause, Trimble variety. Pre-Trimble innocent third party purchasers for value invoke due process and contracts clause...

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