Dunning v. Mayhew

DONALDSON, Judge.

Frederick Roosevelt Dunning, Jr., and Janice Dunning Sandifer (hereinafter referred to collectively as "the appellants") appeal from a judgment of the Marengo Circuit Court ("the trial court") determining that Lula Mayhew is the common-law spouse of Frederick Roosevelt Dunning, Sr., the deceased. We affirm the judgment.1

*617Frederick Roosevelt Dunning, Sr. ("Roosevelt"), died intestate on March 8, 2015. On December 2, 2015, Richard Bates, the Sheriff of Marengo County, filed a petition for letters of administration in the Marengo County Probate Court ("the probate court") in…