Stutts v. Estate of Stutts

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This case involves two groups of claimants to portions of the estate of George W. Stutts, Sr., deceased. He died intestate in 1964 and left a substantial estate. The issue centers around the interpretation and effect of a “legitimation of issue” section in the 1962 statute establishing grounds and procedures for the adjudication and annulment of marriages. Miss.Laws 1962, Ch. 278, being Miss.Code Ann. §§ 2748-01 to 2748-08 (Supp.1964). The Chancery Court of Hinds County held that section 3 of the annulment act, the “legitimation of issue” provision, did not legitimate…