Bromberg v. Bates
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before tbe Hon. W. H. Tavloe. Tbe bill in tbis case was filed by Theodore C. Bates and others against Frederick G-. Bromberg and others, for the purpose of having the administration and settlement of the estate of Susan E. Rouse, deceased, removed from the Probate Court of Mobile county into the Chancery Court.
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Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before tbe Hon. W. H. Tavloe. Tbe bill in tbis case was filed by Theodore C. Bates and others against Frederick G-. Bromberg and others, for the purpose of having the administration and settlement of the estate of Susan E. Rouse, deceased, removed from the Probate Court of Mobile county into the Chancery Court. The present appeal is prosecuted from two interlocutory decrees of the chancellor overruling the respondents’ demurrer to the original bill, and to the bill as amended. The complainants, in their bill of complaint, allege that Susan E. Rouse…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The bill was filed in the Chancery Court by Theodore O. Bates et al. for the purpose of having the admin*626istration and settlement of the estate of Susan F. Rouse removed from the Probate Court to tbe Chancery Court. The bill avers that complainants are the heirs at law and next of kin to deceased. It is the settled law of this State, that any person entitled to share in the distribution of an estate, whether as devisee, legatee or as an heir at law, without showing any special equity, has the right to have the administration of such estate, settled in a court of equity. The reasons have been…
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