Brown v. Woody
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Christian County Circuit Court, W. F. Geiger, Judge. : Payment of claims for the deforcement of dower •can only be enforced by execution or proceeding against the lands out of which the claim or judgment arose.
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Appeal from the Christian County Circuit Court, W. F. Geiger, Judge. : Payment of claims for the deforcement of dower •can only be enforced by execution or proceeding against the lands out of which the claim or judgment arose. I Rev. Stat., p. 370, sect. 2228; Brown v. Woody, 64 Mo. .547. “Under our statute respecting administration and the repeated .adjudications of this court therein, probate ■courts possess no power to allow any claims against a de■cedent’s estate, or to order the sale of land belonging thereto, except for the payment of the debts of the deceased, i. e., those in existence…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
In 1872 the plaintiff recovered a judgment, in the probate and common pleas court of Greene county, against John H. Woody, as administrator of the estate of A. Woody, deceased, for damages in the sum of six hundred dollars for the deforcement of her dower by A. Woody in Ms lifetime, and afterwards by John H, Woody, his administrator. This judgment was, by the probate and common pleas court of Greene county, ordered to be certified to the probate court of Christian county for allowance against the estate of A. Woody, deceased, there in course of administration. A transcript of this judgment…
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- Estate of Merritt v. MerrittSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Brown v. WoodySupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Sheetz v. KirtleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Grayson v. WeddleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Overton v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
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