Cranna v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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37 state decisions

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1. ““II. Sufficiency of the Complaint to Cancel the Deed. The administrator was the only plaintiff; the deceased had died intestate; and there was no allegation that the land was necessary to pay debts or expenses of administration. Prior to Act 140 of 1949 (the Probate Code), § 66 of Pope’s Digest was the governing Statute and said: ‘Lands shall be assets in the hands of the executor or administrator, and shall be deemed in their possession and subject to their control for the payment of debts.’ § 94 of the Probate Code (as now found in § 62-2401, Ark. Stats. 1 ) says: * * real property shall be an asset in the hands of the personal representative when so directed by the will, or when and if necessary for the payment of debts, or expenses of administration.’ The quoted language of the Probate Code was not designed to make the administrator automatically entitled to the real estate of a deceased intestate. The quoted language of the Probate Code continues the rationale of our cases decided under § 66 of Pope’s Digest; and these cases hold that the legal title of an intestate’s land, upon his death, descends and vests in his heirs at law, subject to the widow’s dower and the payment of debts through his administrator. See Stewart v. Smiley, 46 Ark. 373 ; Jones v. Jones, 107 Ark. 402 , 155 S. W. 117 ; and Mayo v. Bank of Marvell, 188 Ark. 330 , 65 S. W. 2d 549 . Sec 62-2701, Ark. Stats., in abolishing the priority between personal property and real property for the payments of the ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Calmese v. Weinstein

2. “When an appeal is permitted by law any party to the action may appeal from a judgment or decree, by filing with the court in which the case is tried a notice of appeal within 30 days from the entry of the judgment or decree appealed from. ... The filing of the judgment with the clerk for entry is the decisive date under the above-quoted statute. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Caskey v. Pickett

3. ““The filing of the judgment with the clerk is the decisive date under the above quoted statute. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. Louis S. W. Ry. Co. v. Harrist