Poole v. Daughdrill
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Perry. Heard before tbe Hon. J. B. Shivers. T. T. Daughdrill, as tbe administrator of tbe estate of John H. Poole, deceased, filed tbe following petition In the probate court of Perry county, addressed to Hon. J. B. Shivers, judge of said court: “Your petitioner, T. T. Daugbdrill, administrator in said court of the estate of John H. Poole, deceased, represents that the personal property of the estate of said decedent is insufficient for the…
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Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Perry. Heard before tbe Hon. J. B. Shivers. T. T. Daughdrill, as tbe administrator of tbe estate of John H. Poole, deceased, filed tbe following petition In the probate court of Perry county, addressed to Hon. J. B. Shivers, judge of said court: “Your petitioner, T. T. Daugbdrill, administrator in said court of the estate of John H. Poole, deceased, represents that the personal property of the estate of said decedent is insufficient for the payment of the debts thereof; and that the lands of said estate, which it is desirable to sell for the payment of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
To conform to the statute authorizing sales of a decedent’s lands by order of the probate court the application therefor must give inter alia “the-names of the heirs or devisees and their places of residence, and must also state whether -any, and which of such heirs or devisees are under the age of twenty-one years, or of unsound mind, or are married women.” Code, § 158. The application for -sale in the pending case is defective in several particulars. It fails to state whether any or which of the heirs are married women. It is wholly uncertain as to the heirship of Jessie L. Poole, whose…
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