Acklen v. Goodman
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill in Equity, in matter of Probate of Will, Administration, and Settlement of Decedents Estate. Appbaxj from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Grai-iam.
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Bill in Equity, in matter of Probate of Will, Administration, and Settlement of Decedents Estate. Appbaxj from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Grai-iam. The bill in this case was filed on the 18th March, 1881, by Mrs. Hattie M. Acklen, the widow of Theodore Aclden, deceased, and their children, against Mrs. Corinne A. Goodman, her husband and her child, and against Charles W. Flalsey, as the administrator de bonis non of the estate of William Aclden, deceased, who w.as the father of said Theodore Acklen and Mrs. Goodman ; and sought to set aside and annul the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The controlling purpose of the present bill is, to set up and establish, as valid, an alleged probate of the will of William Aclde2i, deceased, charged to have been granted June 8, 1872, and to set aside and annul, as improperly granted, a probate of parts of the same will, gi-antedin Deeembei-, 1872. Tlie estate has been administei'ed under the probate ordei'ed and deci-eed in December; and a second purpose of the bill is, to have the estate administered and distributed under the alleged probate of June 8, 1872. In the pi’obate of wills, and in granting letters testamentai’y and of…
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