Hawkins v. King

BOULDIN, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree overruling demurrers to a bill in equity.

The real purpose of the bill is to sell lands of a decedent for .payment of the debts of the estate’ for want of personal assets. The bill was filed after removal of the administration from the probate court to the circuit court, in equity.

The substantial question raised by demurrer grows out of the following state of facts:

A. J. King, individually and as, administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, E. M. King, files the bill to subject lands of the wife’s estate to the payment of only one debt.

This…