Van Hoose v. Bush
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court of Tuscaloosa. Heard before Hou. A. W. Dillard. This bill was filed by the beirs at law of Nancy Thompson, by next friend, Busb, against Edward Rencber, formerly administrator of ber estate, A. R. Davis, administrator de bonis non, and tbe sureties upon his official bond, James W. Baird and "W. E. Karsner, praying an account and settlement of Davis’ administration, and for a decree against his sureties, and discovery, &c.; and also to declare and…
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Appeal from Chancery Court of Tuscaloosa. Heard before Hou. A. W. Dillard. This bill was filed by the beirs at law of Nancy Thompson, by next friend, Busb, against Edward Rencber, formerly administrator of ber estate, A. R. Davis, administrator de bonis non, and tbe sureties upon his official bond, James W. Baird and "W. E. Karsner, praying an account and settlement of Davis’ administration, and for a decree against his sureties, and discovery, &c.; and also to declare and enforce a vendor’s lien on certain lots in the city of Tuscaloosa, formerly belonging to said estate, wbicb had been sold…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The special act of the General Assembly (Pamph. Acts, 1862, 170) authorizing the removal of the administration of the estate of Nancy M. Thompson from the court of probate of the county of Tuscaloosa, to the court of probate of Greene county, was a valid, constitutional enactment. Each court was of the same constitutional jurisdiction. The limitations on this jurisdiction as to the territorial limits, and the cases within which it may be exercised, are of legislative creation, capable of change, enlargement or diminution at the will of the legislature. The legislature alone can exercise the…
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