Roland v. Mathews

In this case the appeal is from an interlocutory decree of partition entered by the chancellor in a suit brought to partition certain lands in Dade county.

The rights of the parties depend entirely upon whether or not the County Judge’s Court of Duval County, Florida, had jurisdiction to- probate the last will and testament of one William M. Roland, deceased, which was filed in such-court on the 9th day of December, 1924, and to issue letters testamentary thereon.

The answer to the question of whether or not such court had such jurisdiction at the time it assumed to take such action must be…