Estate of McCullough v. Yates

CHANDLER, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. In this appeal, the appellants seek a determination that they are the heirs at law of Thelma Morant McCullough (McCullough), deceased, in order receive the assets of her estate through representation. At the time of McCullough’s death, she left no surviving spouse, children, or parent. While she was an only child born to James Jefferson Morant and Alice 0. Bush, McCullough had five half-siblings through the marriage of her father to Rosetta Johnson in 1937. Daniel Lawrence Morant was McCullough’s half-brother and the alleged father of the appellants…