Court Opinion

ID: 9868631
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:46:13.088106+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:49.716605
License: Public Domain

On Petition to Rehear.
A petition to rehear calls our attention to an alleged error in one particular. Reviewing the case, we affirmed the decree of the Chancellor construing the Act of 1939, Chapter 175> regulating the administration of estates of deceased persons. The provision called to our attention in this petition is that relating to appeals from the County Court, it being asserted that the Chancellor, while correct in other respects,- erred in construing this Act as requiring the appeal to be taken to the Circuit Court. It is argued that the appeal, in the class of cases dealt with, should be direct to the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court, as the case may be.
Upon review of the authorities and of the section of the Act involved, we are of opinion that the decree of this Court should be corrected so as to provide, overruling the decree of the Chancellor to this extent, that where the petition is filed in the County Court for the sale of lands, to pay debts, and hearings thereon are had upon oral testimony, in ease of an appeal such appeal will lie direct .to the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court, as the case may be. The petition is granted, and the opinion and decree of this Court heretofore handed down in this cause will be corrected and amended accordingly. '