Sutton v. Bragg

This is an appeal by respondent-appellant, W. R. Sutton, as guardian for Julian L. Bragg, incompetent, from an order of the probate division of the circuit court determining the petitioner, Maggie Mae Nelson Bragg, to be the sole heir of Ulysses J. Bragg. The only issue herein is whether or not the petitioner was the common law-wife of Ulysses J. Bragg, deceased.

Appellant raises two points on appeal. First, that in effect, the order determining petitioner to be the common law wife of the deceased was contrary to the weight of the evidence adduced at trial. Second, that the trial court erred…