Court Opinion

ID: 3802668
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 07:44:30.767982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:52.211418
License: Public Domain

I concur ill the conclusion reached herein, to wit: That the guardianship appointment by the Muskogee county court is the valid one. But this, for the reason that the petition for probate of will designating the appointment of guardian filed in the Muskogee county court vested that court with jurisdiction of the subject-matter under consideration. When the jurisdiction of that court was invoked first, and its machinery placed in motion, it retained its control to the end of the controversy to the exclusion of a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction. To hold that the time of appointment determines jurisdiction would, in my opinion, promote mad races between courts of coordinate jurisdiction to see which could enter a final order first. This would tend to discourage that deliberation so essential to a determination of the rights of parties in judicial tribunals.