In Re Sanders' Estate
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Hughes County; John Caruthers, Judge. Petition by Nathan Sanders, minor, by John Cordell, guardian and next friend, in the matter of the estate of James B. Sanders, deceased, praying distribution of the estate, to himself as the only heir at law, opposed by Elizabeth Sanders and others. Prom a judgment of the district court affirming a judgment against petitioner, he brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHAjRDV, J.
Plaintiff in error filed his petition in the county court of Hughes county, in administration proceedings pending upon the estate of James B. Sanders, deceased, praying distribution of said estate to himself as the only heir at law of said James B. Sanders, deceased. Prom an adverse decision an appeal was prosecuted to the district court, where a like judgment was rendered and the case brought here.
Evidence was offered at the trial to show the existence of a common-law marriage between Sanders and the mother of plaintiff in error, but was excluded. In the petition seeking distribution to…
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