Hampton v. Physick
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court. Hon. Libeety Bartlett, Circuit Judge. If tbe estate amounted to only $300, Mrs. Jackson did not take tbe proper course to have it given to her. There was no petition to court, no order of court. The statute upon which she relies was not complied with.
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Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court. Hon. Libeety Bartlett, Circuit Judge. If tbe estate amounted to only $300, Mrs. Jackson did not take tbe proper course to have it given to her. There was no petition to court, no order of court. The statute upon which she relies was not complied with. Gould’s Dig., ch. 4,p. 104, sec. 3. According to the testimony the value of Jackson’s estate is variously estimated; but there is no doubt that the estate was worth more than $300 ; that J ackson paid in his life time a portion of the purchase money on the land, and that Mrs. Jackson paid the other out of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice OomptoN
The bill in this case alleges that James Jackson died intestate, on the loth day of June, 1852, leaving him surviving Priscilla Jackson, his widow, and the complainants his only heirs at law and distributees; that at the time of his death, he was the owner of a tract of land lying in Hot Spring county, and of personal property of the value oí about eleven hundred dollars ; that he purchased the land in 1851, from George C. Miller, who executed to him a title bond íor the same, and that, when Jackson died, the greater part of the purchase money remained due and unpaid to Miller; that no…
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