Clark v. Ritchey

McMILLIN, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Raymond Clark has appealed from a judgment denying his claim to a fund of approximately $12,500 tendered to him by his wife, Evelyn Brown Clark, but subsequently retrieved by her through extraordinary means before she succumbed to terminal cancer. The case was tried to a jury in Hinds County Circuit Court and the jury found that Mrs. Clark’s surviving daughters, Belinda Ritchey and Barbara Lewis, were the rightful owners of the fund. Mr. Clark now claims that he was entitled to a directed verdict in his favor. Alternatively, he urges that the trial court…