Sugg v. Register

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

JAMES L. ROBERTS, Jr., Justice,

for the Court:

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

¶ 1. On August 7,1992, the Guardianship of E.O. Sugg, Jr., was closed shortly after the ward’s death on June 26, 1992. John Byars Sugg, E.O.’s brother, filed a petition to reopen the guardianship. The chancellor dismissed the petition with prejudice by order entered on November 8,1993. On December 8, 1993, John Byars Sugg filed a notice of appeal.

¶2. On November 14, 1995, the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case to the lower court. John P. Fox and K. Hayes Callicutt, the attorneys…