Sims v. Sims
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Monroe county. Hon. W. A. Tucker, judge. On tbe 7th day of January, A. d. 1850, tbe appellant, Reuben T. Sims, filed bis petition in tbe Probate Court of Monroe county, praying that tbe will of Benjamin E. Sims be admitted to probate, and that be be qualified as executor thereof.. Tbe will was admitted to probate, and tbe appellant qualified as executor.
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Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Monroe county. Hon. W. A. Tucker, judge. On tbe 7th day of January, A. d. 1850, tbe appellant, Reuben T. Sims, filed bis petition in tbe Probate Court of Monroe county, praying that tbe will of Benjamin E. Sims be admitted to probate, and that be be qualified as executor thereof.. Tbe will was admitted to probate, and tbe appellant qualified as executor. Benjamin E. Sims died in tbe month of September, A. d. 1849. Tbe appellee, Agnes W. Sims, renounced tbe will under tbe statute; whereupon tbe estate belonged equally to her and her son, tbe issue of said B. E.…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
*341This is an appeal from an order of the Probate Court of Monroe county, allowing certain exceptions filed by the appellee, the testator’s widow, to the final account and settlement of the executor.
The first question for consideration arises upon the rejection by the court below of certain claims against the estate, which the executor had paid, and which had not been probated and allowed in the due and usual form, and which were not proved to be valid claims, upon exceptions taken to them.
It is clear that the court acted properly, in refusing to allow these claims in the executor’s final…
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