Colbert v. Bond

The courts for Shelby county, as now constituted, consist of one chancery court, two circuit courts, a criminal court, and a probate court; the county being in itself a chancery division, a judicial circuit, and a criminal circuit. The probate court was created by an *375act of the general assembly passed June 24, 1870 (Acts 1870, p. 135, c> 86), and is vested with jurisdiction over all probate matters, administration of estates of decedents, infants, idiots, and lunatics, proceedings for the allotment of dower, and all other jurisdiction with which the quarterly and quorum courts of Shelby…