Palmer v. Carden

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition. Celestia S. Palmer, petitioner herein, and Annie S. Sanders are sisters, and are two of the heirs of A. B. Smith, Sr., deceased. Smith, at the time of his death, was the owner of certain land in Saline County. In 1960, Annie S. Sanders instituted suit against petitioner and Huel Hester for $375.00, Mrs. Sanders contending that she was the owner of an undivided one-eighth interest in the land, and asserting that Celestia S. Palmer had sold timber on the land to Hester for $3,000.00, and had not accounted to her (Mrs.…