Davis v. Bates

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal is from a final decree of the Probate Court rendered in a proceeding instituted under the provisions of § 7948 of the Code 1923, and rendered in accordance with the provisions of § 7951.

The petition sets forth all the jurisdictional facts, and the proceedings in all things prima facie regular, and the decree is due to be affirmed, unless the facts following, as to which there is no dispute, deprived the court of jurisdiction to entertain the petition at the suit ,of the petitioner therein.

William Davis, who died in Limestone County, Alabama, in April, 1921, owned…