MURPHY v. McCLOUD

No. 92-PR-893.

650 A.2d 202 (1994)

Margaret P. MURPHY, et al., Appellants, v. LaShawn J. McCLOUD, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Diamond, for appellants.

Carl G. Rollins, for appellees.

Before FERREN, STEADMAN, and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The principal substantive issue in this remarkable probate case is whether the trial judge committed reversible error in finding, in significant part on the basis of a distinctly problematical birth certificate, that plaintiff Mignon K. Cooper is the daughter of George Cooper, the intestate decedent, rather than his sister, and that she is therefore entitled to share in George Cooper's estate. Before we reach that issue, however, we must...

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