State Ex Rel. Sanford v. District Court

MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY:

Original procéeding. On relator’s petition challenging the jurisdiction of the district court in a probate proceeding to set aside and vacate its decree theretofore entered settling the final account of an executrix and distributing decedent’s estate, this court issued a writ of review directed to the respondent court.

On November 13, 1948, Harry Irvin Rice, a resident of Missoula county, Montana, died testate naming as his legatees his widow, Emma H. Rice, his son Harry R. Rice, his daughter Pauline Walsh (now Pauline Sanford) and his two grandsons, Paul Walsh and Wallace…