Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Boyd
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided July 23, 1982No. 81-618, 81-619PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEATTY, Justice.
Petitions for writ of mandamus directed to the Honorable Walter G. Bridges, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division. The writ is granted.
On April 19, 1981, petitioners James M. Boyd, Lawrence Martin Boyd and Karen Elizabeth Boyd, filed complaints in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division, contesting two separate instruments dated October 22, 1979. One instrument purports to be the last will and testament of Carl Evans Boyd, who died September 4, 1980, and the other the last will and testament of Luther Claud Boyd, who died December…
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- In re Estate of PottsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1978
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