Short v. Porter

SlMRALL, J.:

At tbe October term, 1886, of the probate court of Panola county, Blankinship, administrator of the estate of James H. Dyson, deceased, applied by petition for license to sell the *534lauds of the intestate, to pay the debts (the estate having been represented and declared insolvent); the sale was ordered on the terms of one-third cash, the balance at one and two years credit. Shortly afterwards, the sale was made, when R. A. Porter, the complainant, became the' purchaser, at the aggregate sum of $6,720, of which one-third in cash Avas paid to the administrator, and two promissory…