Calkin v. Hudson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action by the administrator c. t. a. of the estate of Charles Hudson, late of Kingman county, to obtain *309a declaratory judgment touching his right to sell certain lands in Barber county to raise funds to pay legacies provided for by the will of the testator. The lands involved were part of the estate of Charles at his death in 1916.

The legal question touching the propriety of the action and the correctness of the trial court’s decision turns upon facts about which there is no material dispute but which must be stated at length.…