Vance's Heirs v. Rockwell

The case of Hadley v. Fish, decided at the February term of 1876 (ante, p. 51), is authority to say that error does not lie. to the determination of a court, acting in a summary proceeding, not according to the course of the common law.

No other question was presented in that case. The considerations arising upon the present motion are not precisely analogous.

*242The probate courts of the late Territory as originally constituted were invested with jurisdiction of the probate of wills, the administration of decedent estates, and the like, and no special process of review was furnished by the act of…