Jordan v. Bobbitt

Citations

• 91 Miss. 1
• 45 So. 311

Syllabus

<p>1. Limitations. Probate sales. Purchase of land. One year limitation. Remainderman. Code 1871, § 2173.</p> <p>The limitation of one year from the sale in favor of purchasers of land sold by any administrator, executor or guardian by virtue of the order of any probate court, when the sale is in good faith and the purchase money paid (Code 1871, § 2173), will bar recovery by a remainderman who fails to bring suit against a purchaser in possession within one year after the termination of the particular estate, although when the sale was made and for many years thereafter he had no right to sue by reason of the existence of that estate..</p> <p>2. Same. Bad Faith.-</p> <p>Bad faith is not imputable to the mating of a sale by an administrator to pay debts under decree duly entered merely because it appears by the record that the debts of the estate were barred. ■</p>