Howell v. Myer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Jones county.. Host. Sam Whitman, Je., Chancellor. Suit by Dora Howell as executrix against Alice L. Myer as administratrix. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition, petitioner appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Jones county.. Host. Sam Whitman, Je., Chancellor. Suit by Dora Howell as executrix against Alice L. Myer as administratrix. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition, petitioner appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The ground of demurrer chiefly relied upon in the court below, and as we understood it, the one upon which the court acted, was the fourth, namely, that the contract of the administratrix with said solicitor as shown by the exhibits, was void and nonenforceable against' the estate because not approved in…
1Opinion of the CourtOooK, J.
Mrs. Dora Howell, executrix of the estate of T. S. Howell, deceased, filed her petition in the chancery court of *775Jones county against Mrs. Alice L. Myer, administra-trix of the estate of J. P. Myer, deceased, alleging that the said J. P. Myer departed this life in 1907, leaving a large estate, and his widow, the appellee, was appointed administratrix of his estate, and proceeded with the administration thereof; that immediately after the death of said Myer, T. S. Howell, deceased, who was an attorney at law, was summoned into consnltation with reference to said estate; that the estate was one…
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