Nichols v. Estate of Sauls

This proceeding was begun by the appellants to be declared legitimate children of E. B. Sauls, Sr., who died intestate on March 12, 1959, while a resident citizen *311of Walthall County, Mississippi. His widow, Mrs. Mary E. Sauls, administratrix of his estate, and the children, or their • descendants, of E. B. Sauls, Sr., and Mattie Dunn Sauls, his first wife, contest this petition.

E. B. Sauls, Sr., hereinafter referred to as Sauls, first married Mattie Dunn on December 18, 1894. To this union there were born five children. Sauls was divorced from Mattie Dunn Sauls on January 14, 1913, in…