Dowell v. Powers

WILLIAMS, Vice Chief Justice.

Involved herein is a conflict in jurisdiction between the county court and the district court of Lincoln County. The administrator of the estates of deceased former owners of certain real estate brings this original action to prohibit the defendant judge of the district court from proceeding in a partition action having as its object the determination more than three years after their respective deaths of the heirs of such deceased persons and partitioning of respective shares of said lands to heirs and their successors in title and interest while the county court…