Worley v. Worley

BLOODWORTH, Justice.

The question in this case is whether the Probate Court of Madison County, Alabama, erred in denying a granddaughter’s petition for letters of administration and in granting a son’s petition, holding that the son had a preference since he was in a closer degree of kinship to the intestate than was the granddaughter. We hold the Court did not err and affirm.

Pinkie Maples Worley died intestate on January 7, 1978, leaving real and personal property. She and her husband, Oscar Worley, who predeceased her, had three children: W. H. Worley, the appellee, Lilli*1068an Worley, and…