Estate of Willis v. Willis

207 So.2d 348 (1968)

ESTATE of James Monroe WILLIS, Deceased, S.E. Willis and Rachel Willis Murphy

v.

Everette B. WILLIS et al.

No. 44746.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 19, 1968.

W. Rayford Jones, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Clayton Lewis, Clayton Taylor Lewis, Philadelphia, for appellees.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This case involves an attempt by appellants, S.E. Willis and Rachel Willis Murphy, to probate a lost will. On a contest by Everette B. Willis and others, some of the heirs of James Monroe Willis, deceased, the Chancery Court of Neshoba County denied probate. It held that, although…