MATTER OF ESTATE OF TAYLOR

No. 90-CA-0409.

609 So.2d 390 (1992)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Robert TAYLOR, Deceased. Joyce PERKINS v. Lizzie Lee THOMPSON, Booker T. Lee, Thelma Lee Newton, and Western Surety Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ceola James, Vicksburg, for appellant.

C. Ashley Atkinson, Bert H. Jones, McComb, William Timothy Jones, Calvin L. Wells, Frank T. Moore, Jr., Wells Moore Simmons Firm, Jackson, for appellees.

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


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is an intestate inheritance contest. The Court below held appellant failed to prove she was the natural daughter of the deceased and did so on grounds appellant's proof did not overcome the presumption of legitimacy arising from the fact that, at appellant's birth, her mother was married to a man other than decedent. This appeal presents principally the question whether there was substantial evidence in the record...

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