Jones v. Piggott

Ames, C.

This is a petition in error to review a proceeding evidently intended as an appeal from an order of a county court settling the accounts of an administrator. In tbe .district court it was objected by tbe appellee tbe administrator that that court bad not obtained and could not acquire jurisdiction over tbe supposed appeal, and that it bad no jurisdiction of tbe subject matter, and tbe court was asked to dismiss tbe proceeding. We think that, upon tbe record before us, tbe motion should have been granted^ or, rather, that it was tbe duty of tbe court of its own motion to refuse to…