Petty v. Estate of Nichols

OPINION

SHRIVER, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the estate of W. V. Nichols, deceased, from a jury verdict rendered in the Circuit Court of Perry County, awarding the appellee one-half of the estate of W. V. Nichols who died January 28, 1975 and whose will was probated in the County Court of Perry County on January 30, 1975 wherein all of his property was devised to his son, W. V. Nichols, Jr., and wife, Barbara Wright Nichols.

Appellee, Sam Petty, is the stepson of the late W. V. Nichols and the natural son of Pearl Ledbetter Petty Nichols who married W. V. Nichols after the death of her…