Raley v. Shirley

On Friday, April 30, 1954, Miss Valera Mae Jones, a teacher for many years in the Jones County Agricultural High School and Junior College, died intestate, leaving as her sole and only heir at law a sister of the whole blood Mrs. Ruth Jones Shirley, a widow 66 years of age, to whom her entire estate descended under the statutes of descent and distribution of Mississippi. See Sections 468, 469 and 472, Mississippi Code of 1942. It appears that the mother of Miss Jones and Mrs. Shirley died when they were small children. Their father later re*636married and by the second marriage had six children,…