Parten v. Compton

BEATTY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Choctaw County Circuit Court upholding the validity of a certain last will.

*695The case has been submitted to us on both procedural and substantive grounds, and because the procedural aspect raises a jurisdictional question, we must attend to it initially.

Briefly, it is the appellee’s contention that this appeal was not timely filed and therefore this Court has no jurisdiction to consider it. Appellee directs us to the date of the trial court’s final judgment, October 15, 1976, the timely filing of a motion for a new trial on November 12,…