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1 Ark. 422

Beebe v. Lockert

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided January 15, 1846

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1846-01-15

Writ of error to the circuit court of Pulaski county. Petition for mandamus, determined in the Pulaski circuit court, at the April term, 1845, before Clendenin, judge. Lockert filed for .allowance in the probate court of Pulaski county, an account against Beebe as administrator of Burton, the court allowed the claim, Beebe excepted, and prayed an appeal to the circuit court.

Decided 1846-01-15

.Oldham J..,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The facts presented by this case are certainly as strong as in the case of Webb & Estill vs. Hanger & Winston, 1 Ark. R. 121, and equally entitle the appellant to the benefit of the writ of Mandamus. The party did every thing required by law to entitle him to .an appeal, and the probate court has no more power to deprive him of that right by failing to cause the proper entries to be made on the records of the court than by an express refusal of the allowance of an appeal; in which latter case it has been the uniform practice of this court to award writs of mandamus at the instance of the aggrieved party. Levy vs. Inglish, 4 Ark. R. 65. Martin Ex parte, 5 Ark. R. 371.

¶3The court therefore, improperly refused the rule upon the judge of the probate court of Pulaski county, to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue: for which reason the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded to the circuit court with directions to grant a rule in accordance with the prayer of the petition.

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