Reeves v. Lowe

The question for decision on this appeal is whether an adopted child inherits from a sister of the adopting parent where the parent predeceases the sister. The question has not been decided in this State. It arises under these circumstances:

On October 23, 1917, S. C. Carroll, and his wife, Laura S. Carroll, adopted appellee through the Chancery Court of Jones County, Mississippi. The petition for adoption is not in the record but the decree of adoption recites that the petitioners “propose that the said minor shall be adopted as their child and shall inherit from either or both of them the…