Andrews v. Goff

The question in this case is whether the fact that the files of the Court of Probate fail to show the giving of a bond, as required by law, by an administratrix authorized to sell real estate of the intestate, invalidates the title which came from her, through subsequent conveyances, under such sale. The sale was made in March, 1870, before the statute which now requires such bonds to be recorded. Original jurisdiction of petitions to sell real estate, in the course of administration, was in the Court of Probate, under Rev. Stat. R. I. cap. 151, §§ 9, 11; the petition to be “ granted under…