Burke v. Satterfield

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the subject matter jurisdiction of a court cannot be enlarged by an agreement between the parties or a request that the court exceed its powers
• holding that Section 151 does not provide a probate court with jurisdiction over “the substance of the accounting in an effort to determine whether it is accurate or whether the executor has properly administered the estate”
• concluding court can neither approve nor disapprove final accounting; it can only review whether documentation meets statutory requirements
• holding probate court lacked jurisdiction to enforce a will as it was construed by a district court
• noting that verifications are intended to be so direct and unequivocal as to subject the affiant to perjury if untrue
• holding, after approval of inventory, appraisal, and list of claims, trial court erred in ordering amounts owed estate be deposited into registry and partial disbursement of assets be made from funds on deposit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).