Walton v. Busby

1. Where executors petitioned an ordinary to grant an order to sell lands of the testator for the purpose of paying debts, etc., and the petition merely recited that the testator at the time of his death owned “a large body of land lying in Lincoln county, whereon the deceased resided at the time of his death, . . and that it will be to the benefit of heirs and creditors that a portion of it should be sold for the payment of said debts,” etc.; and the ordinary granted an order “to sell the said portions of land belonging to said estate, lying in Lincoln county, as they may deem best,” such…