![]() ![]() ![]() The court *953 further found by a preponderance of the evidence that Leslie Wright murdered both of his parents.įor reversal the appellant contends that the court erred in failing to hold that on the basis of sound public policy the appellees could not inherit or participate in the Wright estate. ![]() The chancellor denied appellant's petition that he be declared the sole owner of the lands in question and concluded that an undivided one-half interest in the lands should be confirmed in the appellee, Glenn Madison Wright, a minor, subject to the dower interest of his mother, appellee Lynda Davis Wright. The two brothers were the only surviving descendants. The appellant subsequently instituted this action to quiet title to all of the lands owned by his father and mother when they were murdered in 1953 by appellant's seventeen-year-old brother, Leslie. Upon being paroled in 1964 he married appellee, Lynda Davis Wright, and he was killed in an automobile accident before the birth of his son, Glenn Madison Wright, the other appellee. Wright, was convicted in 1954 of first degree murder in the killing of his mother and sentenced to life imprisonment. The issue in this case is whether one who murders his parent can inherit from the estate of his victim, and, further, the legal effect upon the right of the slayer's heirs to inherit. Lynda Davis WRIGHT and Glenn Madison WRIGHT, Appellees.īrown, Compton, Prewett & Dickens, El Dorado, for appellees. ![]()
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