Howell v. Howell

The appellee, Dock Howell, as executor of the estate of J. Y. Jackson, deceased, filed his final account in the chancery court of Monroe county on May 13, 1929, and procured the clerk of that court to issue process and have publication for nonresident distributees returnable before the chancellor in chambers at Tupelo, Mississippi, in Lee county, on July 6, 1929.

On July 5, 1929, a number of heirs at law and distributees filed exceptions to the final account in the clerk’s office in Monroe county. On the 6th day of July the exceptors, by their attorney, appeared at Tupelo, the time and place…