Pitts v. Pitts

This is an appeal from a final decree of a court of chancery setting aside an order of distribution alleged to have been illegally and without jurisdiction made by the County Judge of Calhoun County sitting as a Court of Probate.

The decree appealed from vacated and set aside an order of the County Judge of Calhoun County entered on December 30, 1932, discharging one James S. Pitts as administrator of the estate of his son, John H. Pitts, deceased, and discharging the appellant, Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, as surety on Pitts’ administrator’s bond. The Circuit Court’s holding was…