McConnell v. Dorsey

|-iThe plaintiff, Dr. James Earl McConnell, appeals from a trial court decision granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants and dismissing the plaintiffs claim of entitlement to an ownership interest in property formerly belonging to his deceased grandmother. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

The plaintiff is the son of Alneicia Phillips McConnell.1 When his mother married his father, Jeffers McConnell, in 1936, she listed her age as 22. Therefore, she would have been born in 1913 or 1914. Alneicia’s mother was Fannie Dimmer. In 1916, Fannie Dimmer married John Dorsey. Their…