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MATTER OF ESTATE OF SMILEY

No. 57539.

530 So.2d 18 (1988)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Oscar Reuben SMILEY, Deceased. Ena Smiley Paschall, Ina Smiley Clayton, Reuben James Smiley, Eloise Blackwell, Yvonne Smiley Jones, Oscar Cortez Smiley, and Elsie Louis Smiley Blackwell v. William S. Smiley, Barbara Neal Polk, Barbara Deverne Smiley Johnson, Tommy Jeff Smiley, Cassandra Smiley Spearman, Bobby L. Shoemaker, Bay Springs Forest Products, Inc., Irwin J. White, Rex Timber Co., Inc., Curtis Alexander, and the Peoples Bank of Mississippi, N.A.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Ready, George L. Follett, Ready & Associates, Meridian, for appellants.

R.K. Houston, Bay Springs, George S. Monroe, Newton, William R. Ruffin, Bay Springs, for appellees.

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

DAN M. LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

This appeal raises questions concerning the constitutionality and the procedural requirements of the illegitimate inheritance provisions of our intestacy statutes, Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-15 (Supp. 1987).

Ena Smiley Paschall and her six siblings appeal a judgment entered in the Chancery Court of Jasper County in favor of the established heirs of Oscar Reuben Smiley...

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