Case Name: STATE ex rel. LEYSON, Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT et al., Respondents
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1902-03-26
Citations: 26 Mont. 378
Docket Number: No. 1,752
Parties: STATE ex rel. LEYSON, Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 378–382

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. LEYSON, Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT et al., Respondents.
(No. 1,752.)
(Submitted March 22, 1902.
Decided March 26, 1902.)
Certiorari — Adminisiration—Order of Partial Distribution— Appealable Order.
Certiorari will not be granted to review an order for the partial distribution of tlie estate.óf a decedent, since there is an appeal from such order.
Certiorari by the state, on the relation of John II. Leyson, administrator of the estate of A. J. Davis, deceased, against the district court of the Second judicial district of the state of Montana, and E. W. Ilarney, judge thereof.
Dismissed.
Messrs. Forbis <£• Mattison, and Mr. E. N. Harwood, for Relator.
Messrs. Olayberg & Qunn, for Respondents.

Opinion:
ME. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY
delivered tlie opinion of tlie court.
Application for writ of certiorari to review and annul an order of partial distribution made by tbe district court of Silver Bow county in tlie matter of the estate of A. J. Davis, deceased.
The writ is denied, for the reason that an appeal lies from the order complained of, and it therefore cannot be reviewed -by means of certiorari. (Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 1721; Id. Sec. 1722, Subd. 3; Laws 1899, p. 146; Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 2832; In re Phillips' Estate, 18 Mont. 311, 45 Pac. 222; State ex rel. Whiteside v. First Judicial Dist. Court, 24 Mont. 552, 63 Pac. 395; State ex rel. King et al. v. Second Judicial Dist. Court, 24 Mont. 494, 62 Pac. 820.)
Let the application be dismissed.
Dismissed.
(Submitted March 26, 1902. Decided March 27, 1902.-)
(Submitted April 14, 1902. Decided April 18, 1902.)