Mississippi Court Of Appeals Reverses Summary Judgment In Contested Wills Case

Mealey's (February 25, 2021, 1:28 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — Affidavits attesting to the validity of purported holographic and typed wills created a genuine issue of material fact regarding the validity of those wills, even if the affidavits’ signatory may have been married to a beneficiary of those wills at the time of the wills’ signing and was a subscribing witness to the wills, the Mississippi Court of Appeals held Feb. 9 in reversing summary judgment in favor of the objector to the wills....