Gill v. Shirley

Citations

• 55 Miss. 814

Syllabus

<p>Chancery Court. Probate jurisdiction. Trial of conflicting titles.</p> <p>The -Chancery Court, on an application by an administrator to sell land of his-intestate, has no authority to adjudicate upon a claim of title thereto, set up by the heirs as derived from an independent source, paramount to that of the-decedent, and should sustain the administrator’s exceptions to the answer of the heirs setting up such defense.</p>