Jordan v. Copeland

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree denying a petition to remove the administration of an estate from the probate court to the circuit court in equity.

The petitioner for removal, Fred Jordan, the appellant, asserts that he is the husband of Armina Jordan, deceased; that her will has been admitted to probate; and that appellee, Monette Copeland, has applied for letters testamentary as executrix of the will.

The appellee asserts that testatrix was the. wife of Arthur Stevens at the time of her purported marriage to appellant and that the prior marriage of Stevens to testatrix had…