Wood v. Wingfield

ANN B. OLDFATHER, Special Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which affirmed a Judgment of the Butler Circuit Court upholding a jury verdict that Edith Wood was a child, and therefore an heir, of the decedent, Columbus Johnson, Jr., and which further affirmed the trial court’s determination that a portion of Wood’s claim was barred by the statute of limitations. We affirm the jury verdict determining Wood to be an heir, and we affirm in part and reverse in part the result reached by the Court of Appeals on the applicable statutes of limitation.

By this Opinion we…