Any legatee, heir, distributee, or creditor may be admitted by the court to defend any suit against the executor or administrator of the estate in which he is interested, and the case shall be tried and judgment rendered as if the suit had been defended by the executor or administrator; but judgment shall be given against the party for costs incurred in consequence of his becoming a party, if judgment shall be had against the executor or administrator.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-245
Any one interested may defend suit
Codes, 1880, § 2090; 1892, § 1924; 1906, § 2098; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1766; 1930, § 1718; 1942, § 615.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.