When a petition shall be filed to sell or lease land to pay debts or otherwise affecting the real estate of a deceased person, all parties interested shall be cited by summons or publication, which shall specify the time and place of hearing the petition. If the petition be filed by a creditor or by a purchaser to correct a mistake in the description of the land, the executor or administrator shall be cited.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-197
Interested parties to be cited upon petition to sell property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 491 So. 2d 189 - Harper v. Harper (1986)
Most recently applied in 491 So. 2d 189 - Harper v. Harper (June 1986)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (98); 1857, ch. 60, art. 117; 1871, § 1148; 1880, §§ 2039, 2042, 2043, 2047; 1892, § 1904; 1906, § 2079; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1746; 1930,…
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