Legal Opinion

Matter of Last Will & Test. of Blackwell

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided August 17, 1988No. 57927Published

1Opinion of the Court

531 So.2d 1193 (1988)

In the MATTER OF the LAST WILL and Testament of Cobert C. BLACKWELL.

Nadine Fortenberry BLACKWELL

v.

Mary Ella B. MAGEE, Executrix, et al.

No. 57927.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 17, 1988.

Rehearing Denied November 2, 1988.

Thomas J. Lowe, Jr., Jackson, for appellant.

Joseph M. Stinson, Tylertown, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

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2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Maynard v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. William R. And Lorna E. Hall v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
  3. Dye v. State Ex Rel. HaleMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  4. Universal Life Church, Inc. v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. California · 1974
  5. Butler v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974

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