Ex Parte Stephens

KNIGHT, Justice.

This cause is before us on petition of Vida Stephens, as administratrix of the estate of Martha V. Stephens, deceased, for mandamus directed to the Honorable D. C. Halstead, judge of the Twentieth judicial circuit of Alabama, requiring him as such judge to set aside and vacate an order made by him, in and by which he denied to the petitioner the right to prosecute her “suit” as such administratrix for the sale of lands of the decedent for the payment of the debts of the estate.

The respondent judge has filed here his answer to the rule nisi issued from this court. In his…