Mangum v. Estate of Fuller

Otis H. Turner, Justice.

Mary B. Fuller, a widowed resident of Phillips County, had one daughter who predeceased her; the deceased daughter left three children. Mrs. Fuller died on September 17,1988. Thereafter, a handwritten instrument dated July 11, 1986, was admitted to probate as the decedent’s holographic will. That instrument left all of her property to Mrs. Lucy Mangum and did not mention the decedent’s three grandchildren. The grandchildren filed a timely petition seeking a determination of heirship. They were determined by the probate court to be pretermitted heirs entitled to their…