Smith by and Through Young v. Estate of King

501 So.2d 1120 (1987)

Michelle Leigh SMITH, By and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Sherry Haynes Young

v.

Estate of Leslie Clifton King, Deceased.

No. 56977.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 28, 1987.

Daniel H. Fairly, Stratton & Fairly, Brookhaven, for appellant.

W. Rayford Jones, Jones, Jones & Jones, Gulfport, and Thomas J. Lowe, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal addresses the question of whether an executor of a will or an administrator of an estate who intentionally and fraudulently failed to…