GARTRELL v. GARTRELL

Nos. 2008-IA-01410-SCT, 2008-CA-01495-SCT.

27 So.3d 388 (2009)

Diane M. GARTRELL, Lisa Leann Gartrell Aversrush and Jodey Jon Gartrell v. M. Kay GARTRELL a/k/a Kay Gartrell Kirschner, Executrix of the Estate of Dorothy Bryan Gartrell Estate of Dorothy Bryan Gartrell, Deceased, Diane M. Gartrell, Jodey Jon Gartrell And Lisa Leann Gartrell Aversrush v. M. Kay Gartrell a/k/a Kay Gartrell Kirschner.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Mark Slocum, Jr., Senatobia, John Thomas Lamar, Jr., attorneys for appellants.

Richard C. Roberts, III, Jackson, attorney for appellee.

Before CARLSON, P.J., RANDOLPH and KITCHENS, JJ.


CARLSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Aggrieved by the chancellor's determination that a 1984 chancery court adoption order was void ab initio, and that, therefore, the adopted children of the decedent's son, William C. Gartrell, III, were not the decedent's lawful heirs, Diane M. Gartrell, the natural mother of the children adopted by her late husband, appeals to us. Finding that the Appellee, M. Kay Gartrell, the sister of Diane M. Gartrell...

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