Thornton v. Thornton

KING, C.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. On September 1, 1998, the will of Tetta Green Thornton was offered for probate in the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District of Hinds County. Tetta’s estate was being administered in accordance with her will, dated February 9-, 1995, which provided that her estate was to be divided equally among her four living children, when a subsequently executed will was discovered. The subsequent will left forty acres of real property, nearly all of Tetta’s estate, to her grandson Samuel Thornton. The second will was offered and accepted for probate. Tetta’s son,…