Gordon v. Howell

This was an application to the circuit court of Conway county for a certiorari, etc.

The petition was filed on the tenth of September, 1877, by Alfred E. Howell, as guardian of Margaret J. Bennett and Dyton Bennett, jr., minors, and Phcebe Howell (formerly Bennett), and her husband, Alfred E. Howell, and George W. Bennett, an' emancipated minor.

The material facts alleged in the petition are as follows:

That about the seventh of October, 1867, Dyton Bennett died intestate in Perry county, Arkansas, leaving him surviving as his only heirs at law, said Margaret J. Bennett, Dyton Bennett, jr.,…