ESTATE OF LANGSTON v. WILLIAMS

No. 2008-CT-01090-SCT.

57 So.3d 618 (2011)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Patricia McDaniel LANGSTON, Deceased. Mansfield Langston v. Ethel WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsey C. Meador , Cleveland, attorney for appellant.

Alsee McDaniel , Carver A. Randle , Indianola, attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. A wife created joint tenancies with her husband in a parcel of real estate and a certificate of deposit. After the wife's death, the chancery court found that, because a confidential relationship had existed between the decedent and her husband, the burden of proving the absence of undue influence fell on the husband. Then, finding that the husband had failed to carry that...

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