COOPER v. CRABB

No. 89-CA-1345.

587 So.2d 236 (1991)

Etma R. COOPER v. Clifford CRABB, Executor, De Bonis Non of the Will of Jetta Robison Bethay; Timothy Allen Cooper, Maria Denise Cooper Wallace, Leonard Kirk Cooper, a Minor, Melinda Annette Cooper, a Minor, Orman Robison Cooper, II, a Minor, and Angela Ione Cooper, a Minor, By and Through Their Guardian Ad Litem, Roy O. Parker.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward O. Pearson, Fulton, for appellant.

Roy O. Parker, Roy O. Parker & Associates, Tupelo, for appellee.

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


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Once again we see the sad spectacle of a family rent asunder, its members in bitter battle over a loved one's modest estate, and to what sensible end? Here it is a grandmother against her six grandchildren; the deceased, the grandmother's older sister. The grandmother claims under will substitutes, the survivorship clauses on three certificates of deposit. The grandchildren claim under the will, arguing that the funds...

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