United States v. Raymond Brown

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• holding, in declaratory judgment action seeking construction of will, that when county courts and district courts have concurrent jurisdiction over construction of will, doctrine of jurisdictional priority applies and first court to acquire jurisdiction retains it
• jurisdictional priority inapplicable if two cases are not pending at same time
• “[I]t is well settled that the county court has been given complete equity powers as to all matters within its probate jurisdiction. This has long included the authority to construe a will when necessary to enable the settlement of an estate properly.” (footnotes omitted)

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