Tarver v. Barber

1. Where an administratrix applied to the court of ordinary for leave to sell all the real estate of the intestate, lying in a certain county, and. the order of the ordinary recited such petition and granted leave to sell all of the lands of the deceased in the county named, except the dower estate of the widow, and under this order the administratrix sold and conveyed the lands, in a subsequent attack upon the title claimed under the sale the order for sale was admissible, although, after the general grant of authority, it undertook to describe the lands of the deceased and did not do so…