Legal Opinion
Murphy v. McCloud
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 1, 1994No. 92-PR-893PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 resolve a jurisdictional question raised by the court, sua sponte, following oral argument, namely, whether the trial judge’s…
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