Hicks v. Winn

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson — ■

Reversing.

Exceptions were filed by appellant Hicks to tbe master commissioner’s report of sale of lands of which, he became the purchaser at decretal sale, and this appeal is prosecuted from the order overruling said exceptions. The basis of the exceptions is the alleged invalidity of a proceeding in the Warren circuit court, brought in 1908, for a settlement of the estate of one Ellis, deceased, in which it was averred that his personal property was not sufficient to pay his debts and that the real property now in contest, but then owned by…