Thompson v. Case

*198 On Application for Rehearing

MURDOCK, Judge.

This court’s original opinion of January 11, 2002, is -withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

This appeal concerns the estate of James Michael Thompson, Sr. (“the decedent”), who died intestate on May 24,1998. On September 1, 1998, Dayna M. Case petitioned the Baldwin County Probate Court for letters of administration; Case averred that she had been the common-law wife of the decedent, and she identified herself, the decedent’s six children, the decedent’s four siblings, and his surviving mother as potential heirs of the decedent.…