Little v. Sinnett
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Muscatine District Court. This was a petition in chancery, praying that a sale of real estate, made by an administrator, in the year 1847, may be decreed void, and that the title thereto may be declared to be in the petitioners.
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Appeal from the Muscatine District Court. This was a petition in chancery, praying that a sale of real estate, made by an administrator, in the year 1847, may be decreed void, and that the title thereto may be declared to be in the petitioners. The petition represents that Sidney H. Little, at some time prior to September, 1846, died, leaving the petitioners his heirs at law; and that he died seized of certain lots in the town of Bloomington, (now Muscatine), in the state of Iowa; that at that time he was a resident of Hancock county, state of Illinois ; that on the 7th of September, 1846,…
1Opinion of the Court
"Woodward, J.*
This cause is to be adjudicated like, those of a similar nature, which have preceded it, by the statute of 1843, chapter 162, sub-chnpter 10, 713. The petitioners urge a large number of reasons against the validity of the sale, some of which, however, are without foundation — some are resolvable into others, which are stated — and others relate only to matters falling exclusively within the judicial cognizance of the probate court. Such of them as are deemed material, will be noticed.
I. The complainants first take the position, that administration could not be granted upon the…
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