ESTATE OF CARPENTER v. COSBY

No. 2009-CA-00114-COA.

34 So.3d 1230 (2010)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Lura Foster CARPENTER, Deceased: Bobby Dean Carpenter, Individually and as Executor Appellant. v. Autumn COSBY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

May 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Maxey, attorney for appellant.

Cliff R. Easley, Jr., attorney for appellee.

Before LEE, P.J., IRVING and BARNES, JJ.


BARNES, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Following the death of Lura Foster Carpenter (Lura), her three surviving children—Bobby Dean Carpenter (Bobby), Jerry Wayne Carpenter, and Nancy Lynn Carpenter Dempsey—filed a petition to probate Lura's will, which contained several handwritten interlineations and markings. Autumn Cosby (Autumn), the daughter of Lura's deceased child, challenged the probate of the will claiming that the handwritten markings showed...

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