Webb v. Sellers’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The evidence as a whole shows very clearly, we think, that the probate court of Washington county exercised a rightful jurisdiction in ordering the sale of the land in controversy for the payment of debts due by the estate. It is clearly enough shown that all the orders of the probate court relating to the matter in controversy were made in the course of the administration.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fitzwilliam v. Campbell