Templeton v. Falls Land & Cattle Co.

HOBBY, Judge.

—If any rights accrue to a purchaser in good faith at a probate sale made under a grant of administration void for want of jurisdiction, none unquestionably can be acquired by virtue of a sale under an administration obtained in the face of statutory prohibition, and also in such manner as in law is deemed fraudulent, and of which facts it may be added the purchaser had, as in this case, actual notice.

The title of the appellant—the plaintiff in the lower court—to the land involved in this action depends wholly upon the validity of the administration upon the estate of one William…