Estate of Lynch

Citations

• 1 Coffey 140

Syllabus

<p>Partial Distribution—Time for Making.—An application for partial distribution of a decedent’s estate in course of administration maybe made at any time after the period of administration mentioned in the statute, upon allegations showing the existence of the conditions and circumstances required by the statute.</p> <p>Partial Distribution—Time for Making.—The rule prescribed by the statute, as to whom and under what circumstances a partial distribution of a decedent’s estate may be had, is the same whether the decedent left a will, or died intestate. And a petition for the partial distribution of a testate’s estate is not premature merely because the year given by the statute, within which a contest to the probate of the decedent’s will may be filed, has not elapsed.</p>