State Ex Rel. Crawford v. Howard Circuit Court

This is an original action for writ of mandate and prohibition asking that respondent court and the Hon. William B. Smith, as special judge thereof, be commanded to grant a jury trial upon a petition to determine heirship filed in the estate of Tressie Stuart, deceased.

Relators are certain persons alleging themselves to be the sole heirs of said Tressie Stuart, claiming heir-ship as the children of an alleged illegitimate daughter of the father of deceased.

The record before us shows that letters of administration were issued on decedent’s estate in 1957, and that on February 18, 1960, a…