Lee Augustus McGriggs, Sr. v. Mac Arthur McGriggs

¶30. I respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision to affirm the chancellor’s judgment dismissing Lee McGriggs’s petition to exhume or disinter the body of Alfred McGriggs. The chancellor failed to consider the Hood factors in determinating whether Alfred’s body should be removed and reintered; as a result, I would reverse and remand the chancellor’s judgment.

¶ 31. Lee filed the petition to exhume or disinter Alfred’s body from the Sampson McGriggs estate in Claiborne County and relocate it.5 Lee’s petition to exhume argued that his siblings, Mac Arthur McGriggs and Lenora McGriggs…