Sims v. Butler

MYERS, P.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Melvin Sims appeals the Greene County Chancery Court’s final judgment establishing the heirs of Regent Taylor a/k/a Region Taylor (Regent). Melvin avers that the chancery court committed manifest error in determining that he is the lawful heir of Bulah Dantzler Loper and not Carrie Dantzler Sims. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. In 2006, appellee Dorothy Butler filed a petition in the chancery court asking the court to determine the lawful heirs of Regent, a female and a resident of Greene County, Mississippi, who died in 1917. After hearing testimony from…