Jones v. Coon
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the probate court of Wilkinson county, Hon. Francis Gildart, judge. At the September term, 1841, of the probate court, William C. Coon, Benjamin L. Coon, Amy Jane Coon, and Charles Coon, minors, by Benjamin F. Killgore, their guardian and next friend, filed their petition, alleging that they were the sole heirs of David F. Coon, who died A. D. 1831; that in that year, letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow in conjunction with William…
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In error from the probate court of Wilkinson county, Hon. Francis Gildart, judge. At the September term, 1841, of the probate court, William C. Coon, Benjamin L. Coon, Amy Jane Coon, and Charles Coon, minors, by Benjamin F. Killgore, their guardian and next friend, filed their petition, alleging that they were the sole heirs of David F. Coon, who died A. D. 1831; that in that year, letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow in conjunction with William T. Lewis ; but afterwards, on the intermarriage of their mother with John L. Jones, he took out letters of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clayton
This was a petition filed in the probate court of Wilkinson county, in September, 1841, by the children of David P. Coon, deceased, against Jones, the administrator of their father’s estate, and who had also intermarried with their mother. It states that, at the August term, 1841, of that court, the defendant had made a final settlement of his account as administrator, which had been allowed and ordered to be recorded. The petitioners were then, and some of them at the time of filing the petition, infants, and without guardians at the time of the settlement. It charges several omissions in…
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