Legal Opinion

Gray v. Morgan

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 23, 1959No. 41094PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcGehee, C. J.

The real parties in-interest to this litigation are the appellants Myrtle Gray and Isaiah Leitaker, sister and *248brother, and Elena Williams Davenport, the adopted child of John Coffee and his wife Mamie L. Coffee, now deceased.

The subject matter of the litigation is the property of which Sallie Shelton Morgan, the sister of Mamie L. Coffee, died seized and possessed on February 28, 1958, in Warren County, Mississippi.

John Coffee and his wife, Mamie L. Coffee, obtained from the Chancery Court of Warren County on November 15, 1922, a decree for the adoption of Aleñe Williams and the change of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Reeves v. LoweMississippi Supreme Court · 1952
  2. Welch v. FunchessMississippi Supreme Court · 1954

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Marshall Fisher v. Michael DrankusMississippi Supreme Court · 2016
  2. Morgan v. MayesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
  3. Marshall Fisher v. Michael DrankusMississippi Supreme Court · 2016

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